Technically this is not 100% a bug in TC since the internet is full with people complaining on how the highlight/select color with Aero is too 'pale' and is sometimes very hard to see over gray menus/background.
However it is easy to see that the "main TC menus" (File/Mark/Commands and so on) all use a "non-Aero" color which is VERY usable and clear.
However the "system-like" menus do not use the same very usable color - most notably the History menu (ALT+DOWN ARROW), the Favorites menu and the context menu (the one you get normally with a right-click on the item or with the special key on some keyboards). Ideally all those should use the same color as the main TC menus - which are very usable!
This takes place with Win7/x64 with Aero enabled.
Menu highlight/select color is inconsistent under Win7/Aero
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TC uses an owner-drawn main menu with an old style cursor color which can be seen better. The menus which do not use this bar are all not owner-drawn. Unfortunately it would be too much work to make them all owner-drawn too, sorry.
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Thank you for the feedback - I can see how that would be a rather risky change when you are already with RC2 for 8.01, but I really doubt that it would be a huge change for 8.02 given that all the coding infrastructure for owner-drawn menus is already there and at least the 3 menus that I mentioned all seem to be entirely 'built' inside your own code (without the associated icon - the absence of which is anyway already handled correctly by your infrastructure)ghisler(Author) wrote:TC uses an owner-drawn main menu with an old style cursor color which can be seen better. The menus which do not use this bar are all not owner-drawn. Unfortunately it would be too much work to make them all owner-drawn too, sorry.
