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[PROBLEM] Icons in menu have black backgrounds on XP
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O.P. RE: [PROBLEM] Icons in menu have black backgrounds on XP
Aww... you're giving me headaches, phalanxii! :P
Unfortunately, I can't do testing myself as all PCs here at home are upgraded to Vista.

So, from what I understand, there are problems with converting a GDI+ Bitmap to a HBITMAP. But, let's say that instead of preserving transparency, would it be easier to create a color mask and create transparency by filtering out one color? Would that solve the need of using GDI+ Bitmaps? Would it be possible in fact? :P

UPDATE: Okay, markee and NanaFreak use exactly the same function for their Web2Live script to add new signatures to the list. They modify the image list and it works great. I try to add it to a menu item and it fails. So, maybe it's not the bitmap loading, but the bitmap drawing... I guess that we'll have to look at the 4th step, namely the the SetMenuItemInfo part. Any known issues with that bit? ^o)

UPDATE 2: Hmm... this looks like an interesting MSDN article: Vista Style Menus. It looks like it's really caused by the menus! :O

After a read, I think it's clear to me that Vista causes the icons to work, while lower versions don't support it. Maybe an owner-draw could fix it... but I doubt Plus! scripts can actually handle those! :(

Therefore, I'd like to submit a request to Patchou:
  • Make the menus of MenuButtonControls editable in run-time. Something like PlusWnd::MenuButton_SetMenu(CtrlId, MenuXML) would be great! :)
  • Add some kind of support for images in menus. Plus! already does an owner-draw on the menu, so why can't you use that to draw images on it? You already did so with ComboBoxControls! ;)

This post was edited on 01-05-2008 at 02:49 PM by Matti.
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[PROBLEM] Icons in menu have black backgrounds on XP - by Matti on 01-04-2008 at 04:04 PM
RE: [PROBLEM] Icons in menu have black backgrounds on XP - by phalanxii on 01-05-2008 at 06:10 AM
RE: [PROBLEM] Icons in menu have black backgrounds on XP - by Matti on 01-05-2008 at 11:19 AM


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