Refresh menu

aXend · Post by **aXend** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 10:01 am

When I use a menu I find that by dragging the mouse over a menu item it is selected (white) but when I select another menu item the previous one stays selected. By dragging the mouse over all the menu items I get an ugly white/gray menybar. I thought it might be a Windows "feature". It is the same with the PureBasic editor and others. Is it just a fact of life? Is it my PC only? I run Windows XP Home Edition. But if I look at IE 6.0 for example this is not happening. So it can be changed.

Does anyone have an idea what to do about it?

Sparkie · Post by **Sparkie** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:58 pm

Are you running a custom Theme for XP?

Run this code and see if the result is "0" or "1".

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#SPI_GETFLATMENU = $1022
SystemParametersInfo_(#SPI_GETFLATMENU, 0, @myBool, 0)
MessageRequester("Info", Str(myBool))

My guess is it will return "0" for you.

aXend · Post by **aXend** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 7:05 am

You were absolutely right Sparkie. That was it. I didn't know I was running a custom theme, I only changed the color of the background. I changed it back to XP theme, chose the same background again and changed the color again, but now it's all OK.

Thanks for your help.

IceSoft · Post by **IceSoft** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 8:17 am

Sparkie wrote:Are you running a custom Theme for XP?

But It should running on a custom Theme for XP too.
PB is the only one application with this (wrong) behavior if I use a custom Theme... :roll:

IceSoft · Post by **IceSoft** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:52 am

Here is still a BUG (also if I work with the XP Theme).
-> The first menu backgound box is not refreshing if i move to another menu item.

Here are also the code

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#SPI_GETFLATMENU = $1022 
SystemParametersInfo_(#SPI_GETFLATMENU, 0, @myBool, 0) 
MessageRequester("Info", Str(myBool))

InitSprite()
WindowID = OpenWindow(PB_ANY, 0, 0, 300, 200, #PB_Window_SystemMenu|#PB_Window_MinimizeGadget|#PB_Window_ScreenCentered, "Bug in menu refresh routine")
If OpenWindowedScreen(WindowID, 0, 0, 300, 200,0,0,0) <> 0
  If CreateMenu(0, WindowID )   
    MenuTitle("One") 
    MenuItem(PB_ANY, "111") 
    MenuTitle("Two") 
    MenuItem(PB_ANY, "222") 
    MenuTitle("Three") 
    MenuItem(PB_ANY, "333") 
    MenuTitle("Four") 
    MenuItem(PB_ANY, "444") 
    MenuTitle("Settings")                             
    OpenSubMenu("SubMenu1") 
      MenuItem( PB_ANY, "Sub_Menu1") 
    CloseSubMenu()                    
    MenuTitle("Help")        
    MenuItem(PB_ANY, "About...")        
  EndIf 
EndIf
Repeat
  FlipBuffers()
  ClearScreen(0,0,0)
  event = WaitWindowEvent()
  Delay(10)
Until event = #PB_EventCloseWindow

Open a menu and then move to a second one.
The first menu background is not refreshing.

Sparkie · Post by **Sparkie** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 4:03 pm

@IceSoft - Do the menus in Notepad and Calculator work ok for you?

IceSoft · Post by **IceSoft** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 7:13 am

Notepad works fine.
Calculator works also fine.

Post by **Fred** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:06 am

The problem is you display a menu over a directX surface (which won't get refreshed while the menu is running) so you get some glitchs.

IceSoft · Post by **IceSoft** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:10 am

Right.

But I get only a problem with the first open menu item (which is not correct refreshed).
Maybe a synchronism problem with FlipBuffers()?