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Posted: **Tue Feb 18, 2025 7:49 am**

(Context) menu's without icons automatically get the newer Windows 11 design, but icon menu's keep the old look. Any workaround?

Posted: **Tue Feb 18, 2025 9:04 am**

Apparently a menu with icons in PB is custom drawn. Why? Hence it does not match Windows standard menu appearance anymore.

Posted: **Tue Feb 18, 2025 1:33 pm**

I got deepseek to take a look at it with the command to replace the PB menu gadget in the 'Image Popup-Menu Example' code in the help with win32 calls.
Could of course have done that myself, but deepseek did a good job with this basic task. With more complex tasks it fails (sometimes pointing at mistakes helps), it fails especially when a solution can not be readily found online already. Still, that maybe can give a hint in the direction of a solution. Anyway, indeed it displays fine afterwards. So why the custom-draw? Needed in XP times? Then it can be replaced by now with native calls? Event Windows 11 itself changed its context menu style during the various updates.

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UsePNGImageDecoder()

; Load icons
If CreateImage(0, 16, 16, 32)
  StartDrawing(ImageOutput(0))
  Box(0, 0, 15, 15, RGB(255, 255, 128)) ; Yellow box
  DrawRotatedText(-5, 3, "+", 45, RGB(255, 0, 128)) ; Rotated text
  StopDrawing()
EndIf

If LoadImage(1, #PB_Compiler_Home + "examples/sources/Data/ToolBar/Open.png") ; Load an icon
  ; Create a popup menu using Win32 API
  hMenu = CreatePopupMenu_()
  If hMenu
    ; Add menu items with icons
    AppendMenu_(hMenu, #MF_STRING, 1, "Open")
    SetMenuItemBitmaps_(hMenu, 1, #MF_BYCOMMAND, ImageID(1), 0) ; Set icon for "Open"

    AppendMenu_(hMenu, #MF_STRING, 2, "Save")
    AppendMenu_(hMenu, #MF_STRING, 3, "Save as")

    AppendMenu_(hMenu, #MF_STRING, 4, "Quit")
    SetMenuItemBitmaps_(hMenu, 4, #MF_BYCOMMAND, ImageID(0), 0) ; Set icon for "Quit"

    ; Add a separator
    AppendMenu_(hMenu, #MF_SEPARATOR, 0, "")

    ; Add a submenu
    hSubMenu = CreatePopupMenu_()
    If hSubMenu
      AppendMenu_(hSubMenu, #MF_STRING, 5, "PureBasic.exe")
      AppendMenu_(hSubMenu, #MF_STRING, 6, "Test.txt")
      AppendMenu_(hMenu, #MF_POPUP, hSubMenu, "Recent files")
    EndIf
  EndIf
EndIf

; Open a window
OpenWindow(0, 200, 200, 200, 120, "Win32 Popup-Menu Example")

Repeat
  Event = WaitWindowEvent() ; Check for window events

  Select Event
    Case #PB_Event_RightClick ; Right mouse button clicked
      ; Display the popup menu at the cursor position
      GetCursorPos_(@pt.POINT)
      TrackPopupMenu_(hMenu, 0, pt\x, pt\y, 0, WindowID(0), #Null)

    Case #PB_Event_Menu ; A menu item was clicked
      Select EventMenu() ; Get the clicked menu item
        Case 1 : Debug "Menu: Open"
        Case 2 : Debug "Menu: Save"
        Case 3 : Debug "Menu: Save as"
        Case 4 : End
        Case 5 : Debug "Menu: PureBasic.exe"
        Case 6 : Debug "Menu: Test.txt"
      EndSelect
  EndSelect
Until Event = #PB_Event_CloseWindow

; Clean up
If hMenu
  DestroyMenu_(hMenu)
EndIf
If hSubMenu
  DestroyMenu_(hSubMenu)
EndIf

Side note: DestroyMenu_(hSubMenu) is not needed, because per MSDN: "DestroyMenu is recursive, that is, it will destroy the menu and all its submenus."

PB original code

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 UsePNGImageDecoder()

  If CreateImage(0,16,16,32)
    StartDrawing(ImageOutput(0))
    Box(0,0,15,15,RGB(255,255,128))
    DrawRotatedText(-5,3, "+", 45, RGB(255,0,128))
    StopDrawing()
  EndIf

  OpenWindow(0, 200, 200, 200, 120, "Image Popup-Menu Example")

  If LoadImage(1,#PB_Compiler_Home + "examples/sources/Data/ToolBar/Open.png")  ; load an icon
    If CreatePopupImageMenu(0)      ; creation of the pop-up menu begins...
      MenuItem(1, "Open", ImageID(1))      ; Display the icon
      MenuItem(2, "Save")      ; just like in a normal menu...
      MenuItem(3, "Save as")
      MenuItem(4, "Quit", ImageID(0)) ; Display our own icon
      MenuBar()
      OpenSubMenu("Recent files")
        MenuItem(5, "PureBasic.exe")
        MenuItem(6, "Test.txt")
      CloseSubMenu()
    EndIf

    Repeat
      Event = WaitWindowEvent()     ; check for window events

      Select Event
        Case #PB_Event_RightClick  ; right mouse button was clicked =>
          DisplayPopupMenu(0, WindowID(0))  ; now display the popup-menu

        Case #PB_Event_Menu        ; an item of the popup-menu was clicked
          Select EventMenu()       ; get the clicked menu item...
            Case 1 : Debug "Menu: Open"
            Case 2 : Debug "Menu: Save"
            Case 3 : Debug "Menu: Save as"
            Case 4 : End
            Case 5 : Debug "Menu: PureBasic.exe"
            Case 6 : Debug "Menu: Text.txt"
          EndSelect

      EndSelect
    Until Event = #PB_Event_CloseWindow
  EndIf

Posted: **Wed Feb 19, 2025 3:07 pm**

Please move to feature requests. Thanks.

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