vistaMenu mdi

I agree that it is a bug in the way that main menus are merged. Dropping of icon in win7 sucks. However, ownerdrawing it worked. In XP, there is more of an issue. I am trying to find out what it is doing to try to make something that will work for all my projects. Something that I can just drop in and set indexes to an image list..Ya I know alpha is FUBAR, but it works pretty good for icons. I may try to figure out a better imagelist some day.

Vista Menu is open source. If there's a bug, just step through the source and fix it. There's no need to re-write the whole drawing system from scratch.

But I'm inclined to think this is a bug in implementation of MDI. Is adding a child-form's main menu to the parent-form's menu expected behavior?

At any rate - you can fix this by changing the way Vista menu caches the menu item associated with the icon.

I spoke too soon. My plan Works nice for win7, but (surprised me) xp I guess doesn't theme menus, just does color and font change. It also seems to mess up the icons when the menu is merged. I have to look further into it. Later.

I believe so. I ended up using the idea of this control, but owner draw all menus and use UXtheme if it is enabled. Not the easiest solution, but it is not too bad.

Ok, I can confirm this bug. But it appears there are other bugs with the MDI model & the Main Menu control. When a child window has a main menu the the parent window's menus are appended.

Is this the how MDI functions?

I can't send source code, but I can tell you have to reproduce the issue.

Make a MDI container form with an image on the mainmenu. Create a child form also with a mainmenu with an image. If you load the MDI form, it will draw perfectly. If you add the child control. Neither of the menus will draw the images.

I'm going to need a bit more information than that. Can I see your source, or maybe even a quick example that shows the problem? Send it to wyatt@wyday.com

I just came accross this control last night. I see that once I bring up a child with menus, my menus don't draw the icons anymore (using windows 7). Any work arounds for this?