>>"" COLOR n,bg+
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>>This would give you cyan on black prompt for that row. Note that you can't seem to get all color combinations because of the way menu's work, at least I wasn't able to get all combinations.
>>
>>What you should see if you look at the resultant .MPR when you generate the menu is:
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>>DEFINE BAR 1 OF yourmenu PROMPT "Your Prompt" ;
>> MESSAGE "" COLOR n,bg+
>
>Hey Fred,
>
>Mine generated an error because somehow I already have a Color Scheme going on. I'm not sure why that is in there... I'm not aware that I'm setting anything anywhere to do this. Is there a project or system option that is using the Windows default perhaps? Here's the resulting code:
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>DEFINE PAD _0ec0g8f4c OF _MSYSMENU PROMPT "\< Reports" COLOR SCHEME 3 KEY ALT+R, "" MESSAGE "" COLOR n,bg+
>
>Thanks again! Renoir
Don't add the COLOR command to the DEFINE PAD, add it to the DEFINE BAR. In other words, don't put it on the main entries in the Menu Designer, but only on sub-menu entries.
