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Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2005 1:15 am**

Hi,

I've been tinkering with owner drawn menus, searching for an easy mechanism for changing colours and mixing text and icons etc. and have hashed up a little include file which others might find useful.

Features:

easily mix text and icons
colour individual menu items (text and background)
justify the text in individual menu items
use multiple fonts
set different heights for individual menu items
choose to have a border surround the highlighted menu item etc.

I've tested it with regular menus and a little bit with popup menus and all seems to work okay. No documentation I'm afraid, but the example program should make it clear how to use the little library.

The code is based on a routine I found on purearea.net

Click to download

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2005 3:50 am**

Nice

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:29 am**

Can anybody confirm this works on Win9x/Me?
Just curious.

I only have XP systems here, and seems to work like a dream.

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2005 1:45 pm**

Worked okay on Win 98 when I tried.

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2005 2:48 pm**

Pretty nice.

Thanks srod.

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2005 3:42 pm**

Hi srod,

Very nice. Thank you for this.

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:21 pm**

You're welcome.

Credit due to Andreas for posting the code which this is based upon in the Purearea site.

Posted: **Thu Nov 24, 2005 9:00 pm**

Update: The library now reacts to the usual Purebasic command

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DisableMenuItem()

appropriately by greying the text and refusing to allow the selection of the item etc.

Posted: **Sat Nov 26, 2005 12:19 pm**

Thanks, but one little error : member 'enabled' is missing in structure 'iMenuItem'.

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Structure iMenuItem ;Used to store information on individual menu items.
  id.l
  hMenu.l
  enabled.l ; <- fixed ///////////
  height.l
  lefttextmargin.l
  textcolour.l ;Unselected colour.
  backcolour.l ;Unselected colour.
  hFont.l ;Handle to the font to be used.
  textjustification.l ;One of '#ES_CENTER', '#ES_LEFT', '#ES_RIGHT'.
  hIcon.l ;Handle to the icon to be used.
EndStructure

Posted: **Sat Nov 26, 2005 12:34 pm**

Thanks Gnozal, but that member is not, or should not be used. If any of the code references this member then the code needs removing. I'll have a check and upload a new version if necessary.

Edit: new version uploaded.

Posted: **Fri Jan 04, 2008 4:30 am**

The link in the OP doesn't work. Does anyone have the include? It would be much appreciated, seems like a useful piece of code.

Posted: **Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:42 am**

Hi seymour,

I basically replaced this code with a simpler and more efficient offering and so removed the download some time ago.

Here's a link to the updated code :

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... menu+icons

Posted: **Sun Jan 06, 2008 8:02 pm**

Thanks a lot, Srod. That's much appreciated.

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Owner drawn menus - UPDATED.

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