Menu strip colours

[alancfrancis]

Hey folks,

Just starting to try and remember some of what I've forgotten for a lot of years regarding Amiga C programming. I've done a bunch of CLI stuff and its mostly coming back, but now I'm trying to dip my toe into Intuition.

I have a screen which I create with SA_LikeWorkbench and a window I put on that screen. So far, so good everything looks like a clone of the WB screen in terms of look and feel. title bar of the screen is draggable, shows the title and is black text on white, just like WB.

I've just tried to add a simple menu strip and colours are off.

On workbench:

no right click - title is black-on-white

right click on window - menus appear and bar is still black-on-white
pull down a menu - menu items appear black-on-white with a black border
select an item - selected box is white-on-black

On my screen:

no right click - title is black-on-white

right click on window - menus appear and bar is grey-on-black
pull down a menu - menu items appear white-on-black with a grey border
select an item - selected box is blue-on-white

So it seems like the pens are somehow mixed up, but since its created like workbench, all the other colours (window borders, screen and window gadgets) looks perfectly fine.

I tried messing with the pens in the IntuiText structure for the menu items and all that did was make each individual line look weird, the menu itself was still a black strip with grey menu text.

Anyhoo, any suggestions appreciated. Is there some place where I can tell either the screen or the window "your menu strip should be these colours" ?

Alan

[alancfrancis]

Lighbulb moment. The menus I am looking at "on workbench" are the workbench menus themselves. If I start, say, ed and fire up the menus from *its* window, it's just like mine - grey on black, blue on white highlight.

So my screen+window *is* behaving just like a window on the workbench screen.

I have to say I prefer the black on white that workbench uses itself though. ah well.

[alancfrancis]

Lightbulb 2: This is why I ask questions on this board cause as soon as I think I've exhausted every option and just ask the board, I find an answer so the universe can continue making me look dumb :-)

WFLG_NEWLOOKMENUS. ftw.

[Samurai_Crow]

Thumbs up!

[alancfrancis]

I switched over to using GadTools/NewMenu structures and it changed colours again. Still a white background, but now grey text instead of black :-). The Command-Keys are still in black so I know its not disabled, and the text is definitely the standard grey colour, rather than the "greyed out".

Ah well, good enough that I'll move on and keep going with this learning exercise. The GadTools/NewMenu menus are much clearer to setup.

[thomas]

Originally Posted by alancfrancis

I switched over to using GadTools/NewMenu structures and it changed colours again.

The NewLookMenu flags have to be set accordingly. If you use GFLG_NEWLOOKMENUS you have to set GTNM_NewLookMenus to TRUE, too. If you don't set GFLG_NEWLOOKMENUS you should set GTNM_NewLookMenus to FALSE or omit it.

[alancfrancis]

Originally Posted by thomas

The NewLookMenu flags have to be set accordingly. If you use GFLG_NEWLOOKMENUS you have to set GTNM_NewLookMenus to TRUE, too. If you don't set GFLG_NEWLOOKMENUS you should set GTNM_NewLookMenus to FALSE or omit it.

Thanks! I shall take a look.

[alancfrancis]

I can't seem to find either of those constants in the NDK headers ?

[alancfrancis]

Originally Posted by thomas

The NewLookMenu flags have to be set accordingly. If you use GFLG_NEWLOOKMENUS you have to set GTNM_NewLookMenus to TRUE, too. If you don't set GFLG_NEWLOOKMENUS you should set GTNM_NewLookMenus to FALSE or omit it.

Aha! I found GTMN_NewLookMenus, I just blindly searched for your typo (facepalm for me) but not GFLG_NEWLOOKMENUS... unless you meant WFLG_NEWLOOKMENUS ?

[alancfrancis]

Bingo. Worked like a charm. Thanks @Thomas !