White Blotchy Menus?

[Steve Maughan]

I'm developing an app using D2005 under XP Pro. For the menus I''m using
the standard menu component that came with Delphi and I'm not doing anything
special. However, when I run my app the menu items have a white background
while the actual menu bar is Grey. This look odd and different from other
apps. Is there an (easy) work-around?

Thanks,

Steve

[Koms Bomb]

I got this trouble too.
Mine is D6, XP pro.
The menu bar is white, the menu item is normal. Very strange.

My workaround is to remove the TMenu's imagelist property, i.e. don't
make the menu shows images.
Now my app's main menu is right, but it can only show text, no images. :-)

Any others know good solution for this?

[Martin James]

Are you using a laptop or other LCD display? The drivers for these screens
seem to be prone to odd artifacts when displaying image icons. I have seen
simular effects on laptops, but when the same app is run on a desktop with a
CRT monitor, it works fine.

Rgds,
Martin

[Koms Bomb]

No, I use a CRT monitor at home for major development.
The menu item images are fine on Win2K and Win98, but strange on WinXP.
I also test my app with images at office, on Win2K, with a LCD,
but it looks nice too.
I guess the VCL wrapper for the menu images are conflict with XP, but I
don't know how to solve it.

PS: My Delphi is D6 with update 2.

[Ralf Kaiser]

"Koms Bomb" <koms...@hotmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:42a935bc$1...@newsgroups.borland.com...

Hi, did you try to use a manifest inside your application (as file or as
resource)?

Ciao,
Ralf

[Koms Bomb]

> Hi, did you try to use a manifest inside your application (as file or as
> resource)?

Yes, I put a manifest in it.
The buttons and tabs are in XP style, but the menu bar is still in that
strange way. :-(