Dark theme: Main menu color and position

DeXP

Hi,
It would be really awesome to have main menu as dark as all application 😄
Also it might be a good idea to move the menu to the title bar, same as Visual Studio does.

Sergiu

Hi,

We wanted to do this but back then there was no support for black menus from windows/microsoft.

I’ll check now to see if they provide a way to doing it without any hacks.

As for the menus, it cannot be easily done. To do this we’ll have to make custom nonclient area and maintain it with what microsoft changes in Windows. We’ll see what winUI3 (Microsoft’s new UI api) has to offer.

Thanks.

DeXP

Hi,
I’m pretty sure that there would be no “standard” way yo colorize or change the main menu position.
But you could always do something like this: “{File}..{Help}<<<Panel with label>>>[-][x]”
where {File}, {Help} etc are some buttons/labels with context menu. You’ll have to process “mouse drag when left mouse pressed” on the panel - so user could grad the window with it. [-][x] are minimize/maximize/close buttons.
Then you just need to hide Windows’ title bar. Or hide your “[-][x]” buttons if user prefers to have a system window decoration.
Something like this:

Sergiu

This is easier to be done in C# WFP, but in WIN32 C++ you don’t have so much support from Microsoft.

DeXP

Sergiu second video is on WinForms. It’s not about technology. It’s about programmer have to implement the stuff everythere by his own.

Sergiu

Hi DeXP,

Look here for more info about the dark mode in win10.
Will work only with hacks and there is no documented APIs yet.
As I see MS will bring support with ProjectReunion 1, but this will be at the end of the year.

https://github.com/thonny/thonny/issues/1664

Sergiu

Yes, it can be done. I’ll look into it but it’s not a priority for us.

Thanks.