Custom menu for a third party program needs adjustments

[A Keymaker]

All I was able to cook up so is this code

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F4::
Menu, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenu, Add, PASTE IN Sa where focus is, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenuAction
Menu, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenu, Add, PASTE IN Sb where focus is, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenuAction
Menu, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenu, Add, PASTE IN Ka where focus is, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenuAction
Menu, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenu, Add, PASTE IN Kb where focus is, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenuAction
Menu, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenu, Add, PASTE IN 01 where focus is, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenuAction
Menu, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenu, Add, PASTE IN 02 where focus is, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenuAction
Menu, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenu, Add, PASTE IN 03 where focus is, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenuAction
Menu, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenu, Color, 0xff0000, 0x00ff00 ; set foreground and background colors
Menu, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenu, Show
return

HereWillBeNameOfMyMenuAction:
ClipSaved := ClipboardAll
Clipboard := RegExReplace(A_ThisMenuItem, "^PASTE IN (.*) where focus is$", "$1")
Send, ^v
Sleep 55
Clipboard := ClipSaved
return

#IfWinActive, ahk_exe AutoHotkey.exe
LButton::
If (WinExist("ahk_class #32768"))
{
    WinClose
    return
}
else
    return

which results with such menu



when I press F4; from which I can choose entries with LMB in order to paste in what I see / choose or from which I can escape with Esc or by clicking anywhere outside it with any mouse button


The problem with it that I have is that:

1] I see no green color i.e. 0x00ff00

2] I failed at controlling size of font

3] How do I remove that white color column from the left side of menu?

4] How to not use the Clipboard of the OS?


Or maybe it could be easier and faster if I would just use program with GUI for building such menus - can anyone point me out it the right direction?


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[lmstearn]

Hi.

1. Only background colours are available for menus

1. Changing fonts in menus isn't easy - see this thread.

1. White strip on the left is another bugbear - see this thread.

1. What's wrong with the Windows clipboard? An alternative is the OLE mechanism- if that isn't what you want, then it's building something from the ground up which is probably not going to be anything like what's currently on offer any time soon.

Here's a slightly modified version of above code:

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F4::
Menu, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenu, Add, PASTE IN Sa where focus is, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenuAction
Menu, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenu, Add, PASTE IN Sb where focus is, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenuAction
Menu, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenu, Add, PASTE IN Ka where focus is, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenuAction
Menu, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenu, Add, PASTE IN Kb where focus is, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenuAction
Menu, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenu, Add, PASTE IN 01 where focus is, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenuAction
Menu, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenu, Add, PASTE IN 02 where focus is, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenuAction
Menu, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenu, Add, PASTE IN 03 where focus is, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenuAction
Menu, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenu, Add, Exit, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenuAction
Menu, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenu, Color, 0x00ff00 ; set foreground  color
Menu, HereWillBeNameOfMyMenu, Show
return

HereWillBeNameOfMyMenuAction:
	if (A_ThisMenuItem == "Exit")
	ExitApp
ClipSaved := ClipboardAll
Clipboard := RegExReplace(A_ThisMenuItem, "^PASTE IN (.*) where focus is$", "$1")
Send, ^v
Sleep 55
Clipboard := ClipSaved
return

#IfWinActive, ahk_exe AutoHotkey.exe
LButton::
	If (WinExist("ahk_class #32768"))
	WinClose
return

For a gui builder, try Adventure - General-Purpose IDE, Lightweight Text Editor.

[A Keymaker]

Hi.
[...]

Thank you for your input

But as

[...]
maybe it could be easier and faster if I would just use program with GUI for building such menus - can anyone point me out it the right direction?
[...]

I have settled for now on using the freeware Quick Access Popup: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com