Re: Vanishing menu bar

From:

"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:21:08 -0700

Message-ID:

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That could be the case since they are likely drawing their own menu.
Perhaps you could ping their support forum?

Tom

"Goran" <_> wrote in message news:uPVllTh%23HHA.5840@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

Hi Tom!

No, I didn't change the colors.

I have checked the code again and realized that I didn't mention the fact
that I am using "Stingray Software Extension Classes".

My CMainFrame inherits from Stingray's SECFrameWnd class and I am using
Stingray's SwapMenu function to switch the menus.

Perhaps there is a bug in Stingray code. I have tried Google, but couldn't
find anything.

Goran

"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com> wrote in message
news:ODLkZMg%23HHA.1204@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

Have you done anything to your menu to change the colors? It could be
that the colors used are conflicting on a video driver, but not on
another. I had a similar problem with a color set on Vista, but only
with an owner drawn menu. Did you use a CMenu replacement or skinning
software or something like that?

Tom

"Goran" <_> wrote in message
news:uqqebwf%23HHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

Hello!

I have an application written using MFC and VC++ 6.0 showing some weird
behavior I don't understand. On some computers the main menu items on
the menu bar turn invisible. The menu bar is actually there (I can see
it as an empty gray bar above the toolbar) and if I click where the main
(root) menu items should be they are opened correctly showing the
submenus, but the main menu items are not displayed. So far I have
observed this behavior on only two computers, one running XP and one
with NT but on all other computers I have tested with (6 of them, all
with XP) the problem did not occur. I have tried many different things
(in code and in windows settings) but could not find a way to reproduce
this behavior on other computers or correct it on those two computers
which do have it.

Any ideas on what could cause this behavior are more then welcom.

Best regards,

Goran

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