Menu color with Windows 11?

[JnLlnd]

Hi,

With Windows 10 and before, the Menu subcommand Color only allows to change the background color of the menu.

Changes the background color of the menu to ColorValue.
Menu, MenuName, Color, ColorValue [, Single]

The color of menu text cannot be changed. Since the text must stay black, dark color background must be avoided when changing menus background color. Also, the background color behind menu icons cannot be changed.

Since Win 10, more and more user enable the dark mode display. But this mode does not change the menus build with AHK. In this context, for users preferring dark display, these menus are, at least, unpleasant.

Can we hope that new options of Windows 11 (DllCall, PostMessage, etc.) could improve this situation?

Thanks,
Jean

[ewerybody]

Dang! Yea I was just looking into this! And thought: Explorer is doing it. That's probably easy to pull off with built-in means?
Cool there is already a color-Option! .. .well I mean this is not good :/

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Ah! Seems its on the Wishlist already!

[JnLlnd]

Dang! Yea I was just looking into this! And thought: Explorer is doing it. That's probably easy to pull off with built-in means?

Not sure what you mean by "Explorer is doing it"?

[ewerybody]

I mean like

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[kczx3]

You're gonna have to draw the menu entirely yourself until there is a way to make AHK opt-in to the dark theme.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/menurc/using-menus#creating-owner-drawn-menu-items

[ewerybody]

Thanks kczx3!

Did someone do this already?
I did some stuff with gdip but not to the extend to create a separate menu system :/

[kczx3]

This is the only library I am familiar with - https://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/73599-ahk-l-pum-owner-drawn-object-based-popup-menu/

[ewerybody]

Whoow thats pretty sweet already! It works.

[JnLlnd]

@ewerybody: Thanks for the example. I get it.

@kczx3: Interesting. It seems to still work well even if it dates close to 10 years now. I'll continue testing it.

Thanks for your input.