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Hi, thanks for all who commented on the code.But may be i have forgotten to clarify that the code is copyrighted to Oliver Martin who did the whole job.. I liked it , I studied it , I worked with it alot and just discovered that there is a function named ImageList_Draw that would not work with XP without special modifications which I avoided and used the standard DrawState function. i will develop soon a much enhanced menu specially for people make use of the RTL propery much inspired by the cool work of Martin. Thanks again goes for Oliver Martin for the gr8 work. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
BTW, using the Image List version 5.0 will work under XP--it's just 6.0's that doesn't, although "re-imagelist-ifying" your program for 5.0 so it'll work under XP isn't always a good solution. :)
Anyway, now that it WORKS under XP, there are still some problems. If you're using the XP default visual style, the menu bar is white around the top-level menu items instead of the normal color (tan-ish, or whatever it is; I'm colorblind). I've been trying to look through the code to see why--does it choose the wrong color somewhere or draw that part of the menu itself incorrectly, or? I haven't had any luck fixing that, but once that issue is out of the way, this will be great for XP!
Thanks! (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Great enhancement to an already great code. Ive noticed that the code now does not work with multi-resolution icon files but it does if its a single 16x16 icon file. Actually if you use a multi-resolution icon file then one of the bigger icons is used and not the standard 16x16. If that is fixed then this code will rule. Thanx.
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Correction, it seems to use icon#1 if the file is a multi-resolution icon file. ive switched the order in the icon file and it always seems to use the first one. Dont know if thats how the original code worked or not. nayway..cool code. Has anyone noticed any side effects??? (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Finslly = Finally :) (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
9/17/2002 5:45:41 AM:
Still bugs with multiple forms while switching into MDI..... Btw,it works fine ! (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
12/17/2002 10:47:46 PM:
The menus appear to work correctly but when I exit my program it crashes in Kernel32.dll ..... the program won't exit/quit cleanly..... I stepped thru the program for a long time and I think it dies in mCoolMenu in WindowProc but can't be sure.... Has anyone seen this or know how to debug it?
-Tim (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
2/6/2003 7:06:25 PM:
Excellent Work. Recently, however, I noticed a strange behavior when using MDIForm and Child forms. That is, when clicking Icon on menu bar to Restore/maximize/minimize a resizable child form a few times, menu items does not display captions or icons properly. When this happen, MDIform shows an entire captions such as "|New File|&New" and no icon. All 1.3.x and DLL version display the same behavior. Error is occurring when adding menu to collection in ConvertMenu Subroutine. If you already know the solution, please let me know. Thanks.Restore/maximize/minimize a resizable child form a few times, menu items does display menu captions or icons properly. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
2/7/2003 10:43:42 PM:
Tim u must add the stuff in ure form unload that makes CoolMenu unload when ure program is closed. This is how i got rid of that error.
Good work I give this program a FIVE (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
2/21/2003 8:03:10 AM:
If you're using the XP default visual style, the menu bar is white around the top-level menu items instead of the normal color.
On XP we should use the 'new' color constants: COLOR_MENUBAR and COLOR_MENUHILIGHT (see also http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sysinfo/base/getsyscolo r.asp).
Unfortunately I am not smart enough to do the appropriate changes to the code :-(
Maybe somebody else will fix that issue.
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2/21/2003 8:04:05 AM:
If you're using the XP default visual style, the menu bar is white around the top-level menu items instead of the normal color.
On XP we should use the 'new' color constants: COLOR_MENUBAR and COLOR_MENUHILIGHT (see also http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sysinfo/base/getsyscolo r.asp).
Unfortunately I am not smart enough to do the appropriate changes to the code :-(
Maybe somebody else will fix that issue.
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Just wondering here..... the code was nice , but is there some reason as to why theres ; 50 UnUsed Dim Declaration's 54 UnUsed Private Declaration's and 3 UnUsed Public Declaration's ? That's a WHOLE lot of weight for nothing . Still nice though , but a little untidy . (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
9/16/2003 11:36:50 AM:
Hi!Do you have same news about CoolMenu on windows XP? Thanx.
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9/16/2003 11:39:13 AM:
Hi!Do you have same news about CollMenu on WindowsXP? Thanx! (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
1/7/2004 12:18:55 AM:
Did anyone figure out how to change cool menu to get rid of the white background on XP?
Also, there is some code in mCoolmenu that checks for the Previous windows process and somehow calls it again??? I have code that launches a browser and it is launching twice and I stepped thru my project and see it going into a prevproc code in mcoolmenu... Has anyone else seen this and if so how do I stop this behavior??? (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
1/13/2004 12:33:24 PM:
I want to thank everybody involved in this project. i think it is a great job! Well done guys!
found only one malfunction. The System menu has not been dealt with. When you click on the icon of a maximized child form in the MDI environment, the system menu is not drawn and program crashes. I would appreciate if anybody could tell how to get around this problem. my e-mail ou2@ukc.ac.uk Thanks in advance
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When i add my icons in the vb/common/images/office/small/ 16x16 bmp's it gives out an blank image. Could anyone help ... I can't use a difference mask color either (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
When i add my icons in the vb/common/images/office/small/ 16x16 bmp's it gives out an blank image. Could anyone help ... I can't use a differant mask color either (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
I get error when using popups http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=296976
please help (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
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