Great Idea... Tool Bar. Now I have real reason to look into the Tool bar functionality. !
Thanks
Bob Lee

>Hi!
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>Default Windows menu is not sensitive to any colors because it uses the colors from Windows settings in the Control Panel/Display/Appearance tab. MS standard for applications is to make application sensitive to these settings to. For example, using these sttings you probably can make all windows in the Windows OS appear in the style you shown. If you want this only in your app than... the custom menu looks awful here. Better make a toolbar, each button show the submenu. This way you can make your custom-colored menu look like a usual Windows menu - instead of menu bar you will have a toolbar. Make toolbar always docked and not movable.
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>HTH.
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>>Thanks Vlad.
>>Here is a screen shot, of one form which I am working on. I have written into the app, the ability to change, 'skins' or color palettes. And yes you are right, its the colors, and the ability to change colors on menus to match the color palette in my app, which really attracted my eye.
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>>Thanks
>>Bob Lee
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>>http://www.1amsoftware.com/qtent.htm
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>>>Hi!
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>>>As far as I know, they work. But why use that old style menus and popups when almost all things are going to standards (usual Windows menus)?
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>>>Well, the answer could be quite simple - as apopup for combobox, for example (allows more colors). Nice idea, will try it if have some time...
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>>>>Not being a fan of the menu builder myself, I have avoided using these type of things in most applications. However....
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>>>>I found myself looking at a realy well designed web site.
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>>>>http://www.ac4d.org/membership/home.asp
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>>>>and got to thinking about the simple javascript type menus they had on top.
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>>>>Nice and flat, good Colors. things I would love to be able to get working inside my application.
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>>>>So back the books and starting playing with the define pad, and define menus commands. There appears alot more going here than what is exposed to the menu wizard. but what I was most empressed with was the look and feel of the those old popups. They could be made to look flat. But the syntax for coloring is really old. set colorscheme etc.
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>>>>has anyone out there done some work with the those older commands, to see if they really could still be used. with VFP.. (I know it can) but is if just there to enabled the VFP menus, or are they really functional. ?
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>>>>I have seen this old utility Genmenux... but dont have a clue, yet if its worth reading up on.
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>>>>Any help would be great. ... If you at all understand what I am attempting to get at.
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>>>>Thanks
>>>>Bob Lee