Menus with a contemporary style have a three-dimensional menu appearance and can include bitmap and menu title bands. The following figure shows a contemporary style menu:
After you select the contemporary style, you can modify other menu style properties on the top-level menu object and on all lower-level menu items. Since it is important to maintain a consistent look across each menu and toolbar, very few style properties are modifiable at the menu item level.
If you select the traditional menu style
If you select traditionalmenu! for
the top-level menu object, you cannot modify any of the menu style
properties.
You can modify menu style properties only at design time. After you select the contemporary menu style for a top-level menu object, you can select values for other style properties to manipulate a menu’s visual appearance. The following properties are modifiable for the top-level menu object only; you cannot modify them for individual menu items:
Property |
Datatype |
Use to assign |
|---|---|---|
MenuStyle |
Enumerated |
Overall menu style. Values are: contemporarymenu! and traditionalmenu! |
MenuTextColor |
Long |
Menu text color. (Default is the Windows menu text color.) |
MenuBackColor |
Long |
Background color of the menu. |
MenuHighlightColor |
Long |
Menu highlight color. (Default is the default Windows highlight color.) |
FaceName |
String |
Font face name. |
TextSize |
Integer |
Font character size in points for menu items. (Does not apply to the main menu bar which has a fixed height.) |
Bold |
Boolean |
Bold font. |
Italic |
Boolean |
Italic font. |
Underline |
Boolean |
Underline font. |
TitleBackColor |
Long |
Background color of the title panel. |
BitmapBackColor |
Long |
Background color of the bitmap band of the menu. (Default is silver.) |
MenuBitmaps |
Boolean |
Bitmap band for the menu. |
BitmapGradient |
Boolean |
Background of the bitmap band to a gradient style. |
MenuTitles |
Boolean |
Menu title band. |
TitleGradient |
Boolean |
Background gradient style for the title panel. |
