Context menu item selection color height to small

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youki asked May 8, '22 youki edited May 12, '22

Context menu item selection color height to small

Hello,
how can i change the height?

(The blue color height is to small by default?!)

Source: http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/windows/106004/

 HMENU hPopupMenu = CreatePopupMenu();
  HMENU hSubMenuGame = CreatePopupMenu();  // Create submenu for Game
  HMENU hSubMenuPlay = CreatePopupMenu();  // submenu for 'play'
    
  // Add items to submenus
  InsertMenu(hSubMenuPlay, 0, MF_BYPOSITION | MF_STRING, 1, _T("Start"));
  InsertMenu(hSubMenuPlay, 0, MF_BYPOSITION | MF_STRING, 2, _T("Stop"));
  InsertMenu(hSubMenuGame, 0, MF_BYPOSITION | MF_STRING, 3, _T("Start"));
  InsertMenu(hSubMenuGame, 0, MF_BYPOSITION | MF_STRING, 4, _T("Stop"));
    
  //Append submenu 'play' to popup menu
  AppendMenu(hPopupMenu, MF_POPUP | MF_STRING, (UINT)hSubMenuGame, _T("Game"));
  //Append menu item 'exit'
  AppendMenu(hPopupMenu, MF_BYPOSITION | MF_STRING, 1245, _T("Exit"));
  // Append submenu 'play'
  AppendMenu(hPopupMenu, MF_POPUP | MF_STRING, (UINT)hSubMenuGame, _T("Play"));
    
    
  SetForegroundWindow(hWnd);
  TrackPopupMenu(hPopupMenu, TPM_BOTTOMALIGN | TPM_LEFTALIGN, 0, 0, 0, hWnd, NULL);
  DestroyMenu(hPopupMenu);

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DavidLowndes-6766 · May 08 at 09:07 PM

Do nothing - wait till MS decide to change the UI (for the better) again :)

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youki · May 08 at 10:21 PM

???

Xaml based UIs are a cool concept, aren’t they?! But there is no tray icon and it can‘t be running in the background, so I want to run the WinApi app in the background and add the WinUI/UWP UI as a component. At least that‘s how I imagine it. Took a few days to research how I could do it.

Do I have to custom paint the context menu??

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Answer 1 · 2022-05-09T06:26:05.66Z

Castorix31 answered May 9, '22 Castorix31 edited May 9, '22

Use an Owner-Drawn Menu and change the size in WM_MEASUREITEM

Quick test (Windows 10 21H1) :

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Answer 2 · 2022-05-09T06:13:41.637Z

JunjieZhu-MSFT answered May 9, '22 JunjieZhu-MSFT edited May 9, '22

Hello, @youki
Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!

In the win32 desktop application, By default, the height of the selected blue part is the same as the system default height.
You can refer to this sample: Create Owner-Drawn Menu sample.

Thank you.

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Answer 3 · 2022-05-12T14:54:24.467Z

youki answered May 12, '22 youki edited May 12, '22

Since i'm on Windows 11, it's a litte bit confusing. Will check that later on Windows 10 but i just compare it with other applications and now i've seen it in Teams for private usage, school & work and Defender, sigh. At first it looks weird but the default should be ok (?!).

All on Windows 11:

Defender:

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