Re: [fltk.general] FLTK 1.4 Menu Bar Style - Forums

Seeting up your different themes for testing would be a big help. Is your program open source, can you share a link so we can test, or can you share the theme setup and we can create our own "themes" for testing?

My repo is here: https://github.com/dannye/crystal-tracker

With an fltk1.4 branch here: https://github.com/dannye/crystal-tracker/tree/fltk1.4

Although with the libopenmpt and PortAudio dependencies, it's a little tedious to build. At least, tedious on Windows. Building on Linux isn't that bad.

But the themes come straight from this other open source (LGPL) repo here:

https://github.com/Rangi42/polished-map

which is easier to build (fewer dependencies). Although this repo is so far only compatible with FLTK 1.3.

All the themes come from src/themes.cpp (in either repo).

I limited the menu arrow size in commit 866a4a4fcb6c564b067cce38a90696645fab7c0e. Please test and report if this is "better". However, note that there may be different opinions ("arrows are now too small") and we may set the limit higher in the future.

I can't find commit 866a4a4fcb6c564b067cce38a90696645fab7c0e in the fltk repo or your fork of it.

There's another, much simpler, option to fine-tune the new fl_contrast() method to make it "less aggressive": fl_contrast_level().
https://www.fltk.org/doc-1.4/group__fl__attributes.html#ga5cb53fa508f3e45a0ccab46151461a2c

See the docs for how to set this, and maybe setting the level lower than the default (55 for the new mode) can help to achieve what you want. However, I do not recommend changing the contrast level, at least not lower than 50.

I'm optimistic that once the planned improvement is made to menu item drawing, neither fl_contrast_mode() nor fl_contrast_level() will be necessary for me.

Thanks.