How to change Menubar style?

div · Post by **div** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 8:47 am

Hi,

I need to change the wxMenubar Style. can anyone help regarding this.

Div.

evstevemd · Post by **evstevemd** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 12:28 pm

What exactly do you want to change? Words and Icon? or what

div · Post by **div** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 9:22 am

I want to change the style of the menubar like VS IDE menubar look and feel. need to change the height of menubar. if we enable vista theme, the menubar gets 3D look, but i want flat.
Thanks for ur reply.

Div

Post by **catalin** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 9:58 am

For the 3d/flat look, if you use 2.9 you need to update to r62971 or apply the corresponding changes.
http://svn.wxwidgets.org/viewvc/wx?view ... sion=62971

div · Post by **div** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 11:21 am

Thanks.
after update those files, we need to rebuild the wxwidgets src? i cudnt rebuild. so many errors are cuming. can u pls help me regarding this. shall i use wxFlatMenu? if so, pls send me the wxFlatMenu files. Bcas i cudnt open the link
http://www.eistware.com/flatmenu/wxFlatMenu.zip
Thanks in advance....

Post by **catalin** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 12:01 pm

One remark: you need to use wxTB_FLAT flag when creating the toolbar in your sources (see the docs). Assuming you did so, it will not work on Vista; you'll still see the toolbar as 3d (on XP I didn't see any wrong behavior) and that revision fixes that among others.

div wrote:after update those files, we need to rebuild the wxwidgets src? i cudnt rebuild.

Yes, you need to rebuild wxW, and if you cannot you need to see why and resolve that problem first.

div wrote:shall i use wxFlatMenu? if so, pls send me the wxFlatMenu files. Bcas i cudnt open the link
http://www.eistware.com/flatmenu/wxFlatMenu.zip

Sorry, I know nothing about wxFlatMenu, except that I think it is a wxPython implementation, so nothing to do with c++ wxW. And I'm not a file repository either

div · Post by **div** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 12:09 pm

Thank u... I will try and let u know.

div · Post by **div** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 12:47 pm

Hi,

In updated version, wxWindowBase class is an abstract class, so we need to implement the pure virtual funtion in all the derived class rit. i got only toolbar.h, toolbar.cpp, window.h and window.cpp these files. how can i update all otehr files.

Post by **catalin** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 1:19 pm

Where exactly do you care about wxWindowBase? It should be a hidden implementation detail, nothing you need to change.

What "other files"?

What wxW version did you update? The change is only for 2.9.x
How exactly did you update? did you copy only the lines regarding that revision to each file or replaced the whole files (which would be wrong)?

you can just download a 2.9.1 source snapshot, maybe it will be simpler.
http://wxwindows.sourceforge.net/snapshots/

div · Post by **div** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 6:35 am

I m using 2.9.0 version. I ll download the latest version, try and let u know. thanks....

div · Post by **div** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 12:59 pm

I checked the version which u send. But no change in menubar. How to create a menubar with flat style when windows vista theme enabled.