KaFu Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 _GUICtrlMenu_SetMenuBackground() is used to set background color. Anyone knows how to set the highlight color used when you hover over a menu entry? Cheers OS: Win10-22H2 - 64bit - German, AutoIt Version: 3.3.16.1, AutoIt Editor: SciTE, Website: https://funk.eu AMT - Auto-Movie-Thumbnailer (2022-Nov-26) BIC - Batch-Image-Cropper (2023-Apr-01) COP - Color Picker (2009-May-21) DCS - Dynamic Cursor Selector (2024-Feb-16) HMW - Hide my Windows (2018-Sep-16) HRC - HotKey Resolution Changer (2012-May-16) ICU - Icon Configuration Utility (2018-Sep-16) SMF - Search my Files (2023-Jun-03) - THE file info and duplicates search tool SSD - Set Sound Device (2017-Sep-16) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BugFix Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 You can do it by set general system settings: #Include <WinAPI.au3> #include <WindowsConstants.au3> ; $COLOR_HIGHLIGHT - Item(s) selected in a control. ; $COLOR_HIGHLIGHTTEXT - Text of item(s) selected in a control. Local $aElements[2] = [$COLOR_HIGHLIGHT,$COLOR_HIGHLIGHTTEXT] Local $aOldColor[2] = [_WinAPI_GetSysColor($COLOR_HIGHLIGHT),_WinAPI_GetSysColor($COLOR_HIGHLIGHTTEXT)] Local $aNewColor[2] = [0x008000,0x00D7FF] _WinAPI_SetSysColors($aElements, $aNewColor) GUICreate('test', 130, 100) GUICtrlCreateLabel('HighLight color changed.', 5, 40) GUISetState() Do Until GUIGetMsg() = -3 _WinAPI_SetSysColors($aElements, $aOldColor) Best Regards BugFix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaFu Posted July 27, 2009 Author Share Posted July 27, 2009 (edited) Thanks for the feedback! In general this is exactly what I was looking for. For menus the highlight color is $COLOR_MENUHILIGHT. Sadly this setting is system-wide. Is there a possibility to restrict this behaviour to my own GUI only? expandcollapse popup#include <GuiMenu.au3> #include <GuiConstantsEx.au3> #include <WinAPI.au3> #include <WindowsConstants.au3> ; $COLOR_HIGHLIGHT - Item(s) selected in a control. ; $COLOR_HIGHLIGHTTEXT - Text of item(s) selected in a control. Local $aElements[2] = [$COLOR_HIGHLIGHTTEXT,$COLOR_MENUHILIGHT] Local $aOldColor[2] = [_WinAPI_GetSysColor($COLOR_HIGHLIGHTTEXT),_WinAPI_GetSysColor($COLOR_MENUHILIGHT)] Local $aNewColor[2] = [0x0000FF, 0xC2EEFF] _WinAPI_SetSysColors($aElements, $aNewColor) Opt('MustDeclareVars', 1) Global $iMemo Global Enum $idNew = 1000, $idOpen, $idSave, $idExit, $idCut, $idCopy, $idPaste, $idAbout _Main() _WinAPI_SetSysColors($aElements, $aOldColor) Func _Main() Local $hGUI, $hFile, $hEdit, $hHelp, $hMain ; Create GUI $hGUI = GUICreate("Menu", 400, 300) ; Create File menu $hFile = _GUICtrlMenu_CreateMenu () _GUICtrlMenu_InsertMenuItem ($hFile, 0, "&New", $idNew) _GUICtrlMenu_InsertMenuItem ($hFile, 1, "&Open", $idOpen) _GUICtrlMenu_InsertMenuItem ($hFile, 2, "&Save", $idSave) _GUICtrlMenu_InsertMenuItem ($hFile, 3, "", 0) _GUICtrlMenu_InsertMenuItem ($hFile, 4, "E&xit", $idExit) ; Create Edit menu $hEdit = _GUICtrlMenu_CreateMenu () _GUICtrlMenu_InsertMenuItem ($hEdit, 0, "&Cut", $idCut) _GUICtrlMenu_InsertMenuItem ($hEdit, 1, "C&opy", $idCopy) _GUICtrlMenu_InsertMenuItem ($hEdit, 2, "&Paste", $idPaste) ; Create Help menu $hHelp = _GUICtrlMenu_CreateMenu () _GUICtrlMenu_InsertMenuItem ($hHelp, 0, "&About", $idAbout) ; Create Main menu $hMain = _GUICtrlMenu_CreateMenu () _GUICtrlMenu_InsertMenuItem ($hMain, 0, "&File", 0, $hFile) _GUICtrlMenu_InsertMenuItem ($hMain, 1, "&Edit", 0, $hEdit) _GUICtrlMenu_InsertMenuItem ($hMain, 2, "&Help", 0, $hHelp) ; Set window menu _GUICtrlMenu_SetMenu ($hGUI, $hMain) ; Create memo control $iMemo = GUICtrlCreateEdit("", 2, 2, 396, 276, 0) GUICtrlSetFont($iMemo, 9, 400, 0, "Courier New") GUISetState() ; Loop until user exits GUIRegisterMsg($WM_COMMAND, "WM_COMMAND") ; Loop until user exits Do Until GUIGetMsg() = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE EndFunc ;==>_Main ; Handle menu commands Func WM_COMMAND($hWnd, $iMsg, $iwParam, $ilParam) Switch _WinAPI_LoWord ($iwParam) Case $idNew MemoWrite("New") Case $idOpen MemoWrite("Open") Case $idSave MemoWrite("Save") Case $idExit Exit Case $idCut MemoWrite("Cut") Case $idCopy MemoWrite("Copy") Case $idPaste MemoWrite("Paste") Case $idAbout MemoWrite("About") EndSwitch Return $GUI_RUNDEFMSG EndFunc ;==>WM_COMMAND ; Write message to memo Func MemoWrite($sMessage) GUICtrlSetData($iMemo, $sMessage & @CRLF, 1) EndFunc ;==>MemoWrite Edited July 27, 2009 by KaFu OS: Win10-22H2 - 64bit - German, AutoIt Version: 3.3.16.1, AutoIt Editor: SciTE, Website: https://funk.eu AMT - Auto-Movie-Thumbnailer (2022-Nov-26) BIC - Batch-Image-Cropper (2023-Apr-01) COP - Color Picker (2009-May-21) DCS - Dynamic Cursor Selector (2024-Feb-16) HMW - Hide my Windows (2018-Sep-16) HRC - HotKey Resolution Changer (2012-May-16) ICU - Icon Configuration Utility (2018-Sep-16) SMF - Search my Files (2023-Jun-03) - THE file info and duplicates search tool SSD - Set Sound Device (2017-Sep-16) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BugFix Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 A workaround may be, to toggle this settings by check which window is active: yours or another one. Best Regards BugFix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaFu Posted July 27, 2009 Author Share Posted July 27, 2009 A workaround may be, to toggle this settings by check which window is active: yours or another one.Thought about this one too, until I saw the language selector in my taskbar changing colors >_<... would prefer a 'permanent' solution. Already searched msdn in vain, maybe I'll do some more googling this evening , thanks for your feedback! OS: Win10-22H2 - 64bit - German, AutoIt Version: 3.3.16.1, AutoIt Editor: SciTE, Website: https://funk.eu AMT - Auto-Movie-Thumbnailer (2022-Nov-26) BIC - Batch-Image-Cropper (2023-Apr-01) COP - Color Picker (2009-May-21) DCS - Dynamic Cursor Selector (2024-Feb-16) HMW - Hide my Windows (2018-Sep-16) HRC - HotKey Resolution Changer (2012-May-16) ICU - Icon Configuration Utility (2018-Sep-16) SMF - Search my Files (2023-Jun-03) - THE file info and duplicates search tool SSD - Set Sound Device (2017-Sep-16) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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