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How to change the cmfcmenubutton drop-down menu background color?
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Have you tried CMFCMenuButton load a menu that with background color? Similar thread: menu background colour
Here is an example of ColorMenu for your reference.
I have not tried.But I use SetMenuInfo，and it does not work.
Like this
CBrush brush;
brush.CreateSolidBrush(color);
MENUINFO mi;
mi.cbSize=sizeof(MENUINFO);
mi.fMask=MIM_BACKGROUND;
mi.hbrBack=(HBRUSH)brush;
int result=SetMenuInfo((HMENU)(menu.m_hMenu),&mi);
it does not work.
How does it react. Nothing happened?
This is the snippet I tested.:
CMenu* pMenu = new CMenu;
pMenu->LoadMenu(IDR_MENU1);
CMenu* pSubMenu = pMenu->GetSubMenu(0);
CBitmap bmp;
bmp.LoadBitmap(IDB_BITMAP1 );
pSubMenu->SetMenuItemBitmaps(0, MF_BYPOSITION, &bmp, &bmp);
pSubMenu->SetMenuItemBitmaps(1, MF_BYPOSITION, &bmp, &bmp);
bmp.Detach();
CBrush m_BKBrush;
m_BKBrush.CreateSolidBrush(0x000000FF);
MENUINFO mnInfo;
memset(&mnInfo, 0, sizeof(MENUINFO));
mnInfo.cbSize = sizeof(MENUINFO);
mnInfo.fMask = MIM_BACKGROUND;
mnInfo.hbrBack = m_BKBrush;
::SetMenuInfo(pSubMenu->m_hMenu, &mnInfo);
m_BKBrush.Detach();
m_menubutton.m_hMenu = pMenu->GetSubMenu(0)->GetSafeHmenu();
SetMenuInfo doesn't seem to be able to change the ITEM Background.
Hi, @ZH Chan
The background color can also be changed by setting the first SubMenu Properties> behavior> break.
Snippet:
CMenu* pMenu = new CMenu;
pMenu->LoadMenu(IDR_MENU1);
CMenu* pSubMenu = pMenu->GetSubMenu(0);
CBitmap bmp;
CBrush m_BKBrush;
bmp.LoadBitmap(IDB_BITMAP1);
m_BKBrush.CreateSolidBrush(0x00ffee/*color*/);
MENUINFO mnInfo;
memset(&mnInfo, 0, sizeof(MENUINFO));
mnInfo.cbSize = sizeof(MENUINFO);
mnInfo.fMask = MIM_BACKGROUND;
mnInfo.hbrBack = m_BKBrush;
::SetMenuInfo(pSubMenu->m_hMenu, &mnInfo);
m_BKBrush.Detach();
m_menubutton.m_hMenu = pMenu->GetSubMenu(0)->GetSafeHmenu();
Best regards,
Minxin Yu
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Thanks for your answer.I have tried you method, but it does not work.let me show my code:
// m_accoutMenu is a class memeber,CMenu type
m_accountMenu.CreateMenu();
m_accountMenu.AppendMenuW(MF_STRING, ID_ACCOUNT_INFO, _T("Account Info"));
m_accountMenu.ModifyMenuW(0, MF_BYPOSITION |MF_OWNERDRAW, ID_ACCOUNT_INFO);
CBrush cBrush;
cBrush.CreateSolidBrush(RGB(255,0,0));
MENUINFO mi = { 0 };
mi.cbSize = sizeof(MENUINFO);
mi.fMask = MIM_BACKGROUND;
mi.hbrBack = cBrush;
::SetMenuInfo(m_accountMenu.m_hMenu, &mi);
cBrush.Detach();
m_button.m_hMenu = m_accountMenu.m_hMenu;
Maybe there is something wrong in my code, can you show me.
MF_OWNERDRAW requires Owner_Draw_Menu. If needed you can refer to this thread.
Try the snippet below.
1.Create a new MFC DLG application and place the snippet in in CMFCApplicationDlg::OnInitDialog()
2. Drag the MFC menuButton control to the form and bind the variable m_button.
3. Declare m_accoutMenu and subMenu in .h file.
I modified AppendMenuW. Also as I said above, you need to change the break property. MF_MENUBREAK
// m_accoutMenu and subMenu are class memebers,CMenu type
Snippet:
m_accountMenu.CreateMenu();
subMenu.CreatePopupMenu();
m_accountMenu.AppendMenuW(MF_BYPOSITION | MF_POPUP | MF_STRING , (UINT)subMenu.m_hMenu, _T("Sub Info"));
subMenu.AppendMenuW(MF_MENUBREAK | MF_STRING | MF_ENABLED , 1001, _T("sub Info1"));
subMenu.AppendMenuW(MF_STRING | MF_ENABLED , 1002, _T("sub Info2"));
CBrush cBrush;
cBrush.CreateSolidBrush(RGB(255, 0, 0));
MENUINFO mi = { 0 };
mi.cbSize = sizeof(MENUINFO);
mi.fMask = MIM_BACKGROUND;
mi.hbrBack = cBrush;
::SetMenuInfo(m_accountMenu.GetSubMenu(0)->GetSafeHmenu(), &mi);
cBrush.Detach();
//SetMenu(&m_accountMenu);//show the dlg menu
m_button.m_hMenu = m_accountMenu.GetSubMenu(0)->GetSafeHmenu();
