Question

I’m using this code in VS2012 to load a menu from a resource file of my .exe app. I am on Windows 7;

m_hMenu = LoadMenu(lpApplication->m_hInstance, lpszMenuName);

I’m then passing the m_hMenu as a handle to CreateWindow. My application, I believe, has the correct manifest (other controls have nice styling):

#pragma comment(linker, "/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='*' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")

This is what my application’s menu looks like:

This is what the menu in Notepad.exe looks like:

My applications menu seems to look “old” and I can’t figure out why. I need someone to point me in the right direction to theming my menu to have the translucent hover/styling like shown in the second picture.

Answer 1

Apparently, setting the “Break” parameter to “Bar” under the menu designer causes the menu to revert to older styling. I didn’t think this would be relevant.