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Asked: 2026-06-14T16:45:06+00:00

Looking at the wxWidgets documentation , I see that one should be able to

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Looking at the wxWidgets documentation, I see that one should be able to set the text colour for a wxMenuItem object in Windows only. I am using Windows, so good.

When coding in wxPython and trying to accomplish this, not only do I not get the menu item’s text colour changed, but I notice that the menu item which follows this menu item in the same menu gets indented by 1 character. Very strange indeed. Should I remove the directive to set the text colour, the two menu items line up as expected.

So here is my code. I don’t see any mistakes in my code, but perhaps there is something because I am sure that indentation is a sign something is up.

menu = wx.Menu()
colour = (255,0,0) # like the text to be red
m_cluster = menu.Append(-1, "&Cluster\tAlt-C", "Cluster Options.")
m_cluster.SetTextColour(colour) # remembered to spell color with u
self.Bind(wx.EVT_MENU, self.OpenClusterDialog, m_cluster)
m_data = menu.Append(-1, "Data Source", "Set Data Source Information")
self.Bind(ex.EVT_MENU, self.OpenDataSourceDialog, m_data)
menuBar.Append(menu, "&Options") # menu bar previously defined

wxversion.py reports that I have 2.8-msv-unicode installed

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  1. Editorial Team

    I played with your code and noticed that the color will only be applied if the menuitem is not yet appended to the menu. So instead of menu.Append(...), you need to to:

    m_cluster = wx.MenuItem(menu, -1, "&Cluster\tAlt-C", "Cluster Options.")
m_cluster.SetTextColour(colour)
menu.AppendItem(m_cluster)

    I’m on wx 2.9 so YMMV. I did not notice the indentation problem, but that can also be related to the version.

    Red menu item

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