Hi all,
I need to have a TMenu object where some items have a background color and one or many other items have a different background color.
Is there an easy way to do it?
Many thanks in advance.

<<I need to have a TMenu object where some items have a background color and one or many other items have a different background color.
Is there an easy way to do it?>>

Hi Bill

I think you will that the short answer is no.

What are you trying to achieve?

If you are replacing an existing application and the customer really insists on everything being the same, you could deeply sympathise and explain that the standards (W3C HTML, CSS or the JavaScript standards or anything else you like to add) just does not allow that to happen. Yes, change does not always mean progress and yes, it is really bad.

BUT, you could explain to the customer that you could change the text colors and any other font properties for individual items or even add some icons.

Erick placed some great code which allows you change the background colors of TButton which you could change to TMenuItem. The existing menu items background does not always show a great contrast between many text colors.

https://www.elevatesoft.com/forums?action=view&category=ewb&id=ewb_general&page=1&msg=13840#13840

It really depends on what you wish to achieve.

Richard

Richard Harding wrote:

> you could deeply sympathise and explain that the standards (W3C HTML, CSS or the JavaScript standards or anything else you like to add) just does not allow that to happen. Yes, change does not always mean progress and yes, it is really bad.

I hesistate to say that some clients won't accept that. If they won't then it means a lot more work, but you could do menus the "old" way where you make them yourself from panels. There were some very nice menu examples posted here if someone wants to do custom completely. Just be sure you are getting paid by the hour for it.

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Matthew Jones

Bill,

> Is there an easy way to do it?

As already stated: that's not possible with the standard control. You'd have to create your own menu system.
Here a sample with code:

https://www.elevatesoft.com/forums?action=view&category=ewb&id=ewb_demos&page=1&msg=227#227

Uli

Uli,

 // Here a sample with code:

There's an FTP account in the source code you attached and I just tried an logged in successfully. This note just in case it's not public.

Michael Dreher

Bill,

<< I need to have a TMenu object where some items have a background color and one or many other items have a different background color. >>

That's going to be problematic with the current releases of EWB.  The TMenuItem control interfaces apply different backgrounds to each item, depending upon their selection/disabled/etc. state.  So, by default, EWB doesn't allow you to modify the backgrounds at all.

Some of this will change in a future release when I finally get the UI layer re-worked to allow any developer modifications to the appearance of controls to be saved and unaffected by transitions back to their "normal" state.  I originally avoided doing this for fear of blowing up the memory consumption of EWB applications because it involves each UI element having to carry around two different representations of the control appearance - the "current" state and the "normal" state, as defined by the developer.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Michael,

> There's an FTP account in the source code you attached and I just tried an logged in successfully. This note just in case it's not public.

Ups, thanks a lot for this hint. Forgot to take it out.

Uli

Uli Becker wrote:

> > There's an FTP account in the source code you attached
>
> Ups, thanks a lot for this hint. Forgot to take it out.

Perhaps this should lead to a request for an improvement, which would be generally good anyway. The IDE should have a list of FTP connections and details, and the project should specify which of the FTP server details it should use. So no project has the FTP details directly, and I can have a set of FTP details for my system that will work on the project we share, but your system uploads to your FTP site instead.

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Matthew Jones

Matthew,

> Perhaps this should lead to a request for an improvement, which would be generally good anyway. The IDE should have a list of FTP connections and details, and the project should specify which of the FTP server details it should use. So no project has the FTP details directly, and I can have a set of FTP details for my system that will work on the project we share, but your system uploads to your FTP site instead.


Good idea! +1

Uli

Matthew,

<< Perhaps this should lead to a request for an improvement, which would be generally good anyway. The IDE should have a list of FTP connections and details, and the project should specify which of the FTP server details it should use. So no project has the FTP details directly, and I can have a set of FTP details for my system that will work on the project we share, but your system uploads to your FTP site instead. >>

Noted.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com