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Topic: Menu and 32bpp menu icons

Posted By: kamil
Subject: Menu and 32bpp menu icons
Date Posted: 25 November 2008 at 5:08am

Hi,

I used 32bpp icons in my application. It worked well in standard menus ( background was transparent ) but a black background is drawn in skinned menus ( all images are drawn fine but with a black background ). Here is a simple usage scenario :

CImage cImage;

cImage.Load("myimage.png");

MyAlphaPremultiplication( cImage );

HBITMAP hBitmap = image.Detach();

MENUITEMINFO cInfo;

...

cInfo.hbmpItem = hBitmap;

...

InsertMenuItem( ..., &cInfo );

Ups, all items have black background ! Is there a way to use 32bpp bitmaps in menus ?

Thanks in advance,

Kamil

Replies:

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 25 November 2008 at 7:26am

Hi,

Please use our CommandBars instead. They support Alpha icons in all OS not just WindowsXP.

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: kamil
Date Posted: 25 November 2008 at 12:20pm

Thanks for the answer,
Do you mean that SkinFramework doesn't support 32bpp icons or there are problems with my system ? Actually I use Windows Vista and I don't expect Windows XP to be any different ( I don't support any other OS'es ). I don't think it would be a big problem to add a transparent icons to skinned menus and it would be a great feature allowing to use skinFramework in existing applications seamlessly.
Converting menus to CommandBars is not straightforward, it is a lot of work and dependencies, changing base classes etc.

Kamil

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 26 November 2008 at 7:22am

Hi,

I can't make 32bit icons work with standard menus :( Can you please attach some sample to show what you do.

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: kamil
Date Posted: 01 December 2008 at 2:30am

Sorry, it may work only on Vista. I have no WindowsXP around to check it ...

http://shellrevealed.com/blogs/shellblog/archive/2007/02/06/Vista-Style-Menus_2C00_-Part-1-_2D00_-Adding-icons-to-standard-menus.aspx - http://shellrevealed.com/blogs/shellblog/archive/2007/02/06/Vista-Style-Menus_2C00_-Part-1-_2D00_-Adding-icons-to-standard-menus.aspx

Here is my MENUITEMINFO:

cItem.cbSize = sizeof(cItem);

cItem.fType = MIIM_BITMAP | MIIM_STRING;

cItem.hbmpItem = hBitmap;

cItem.dwTypeData = "File";