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user565739
user565739

Reputation: 1332

change menu bar background color

I tried SetMenuInfo with MIM_BACKGROUND, but it doesn't work. I found it is because the Visual Style is enabled. But I don't want to disable the Visual Style by SetWindowTheme(hwndMain, L"", L"") because it will change the appearance of the title bar and border...etc.

Is there any way to change, and only change the background color of the menu bar, without disable Visual Style of the main window. By "only change", I also mean that I don't have to draw the menu items myself, like I can use custom draw for change only the background color of toolbar, tab...etc. (But I can find custom draw for menu bar!).

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3550

Answers (2)

adzm
adzm

Reputation: 4146

With themes there is no official way to change the color. However you can take advantage of some undocumented window messages to implement the custom drawing yourself. https://github.com/adzm/win32-custom-menubar-aero-theme

Upvotes: 1

DiorsPMonkey
DiorsPMonkey

Reputation: 19

You just set MainMenu's OwnerDraw Property to true, and Menu is automatically close Menu's theme, but don't close Window's theme!

Upvotes: 1

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