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Hello!
I did use Prof_UIS lib
for creating menu in dialog based application.
I would like to know is any opportunity to change background color of menu bar
Thank you.

Dear Artur,

To change the background color of the menu bar, please override the DoPaint() method and copy its code from CExtToolColontrolBar::DoPaint(). This CExtMenuControlBar-derived class should be used in the following way:

class CMyMenuControlBar: public CExtMenuControlBar 
{ 
    public: 
        void DoPaint( CDC *pDC ) 
        { 
            . . . 
        } 
}; // class CMyExtTabMdiWnd

Now find the line g_PaintManager->PaintControlBarClientArea(*pDC, rcClient, this ) at the beginning of DoPaint() and replace it with pDC->FillSolidRect( &rcClient, RGB(r,g,b) ). This line is responsible for the background color of the menu bar’s client area. You also need to repaint the menu bar’s non-client area via handling WM_NCPAINT (which is preferable when the menu bar is used in a frame window) or make the non-client area empty via handling WM_NCCALCSIZE (which is preferable when the menu bar is used in a dialog):

virtual LRESULT WindowProc ( UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam ) 
{ 
    if( message==WM_NCCALCSIZE ) 
        return 0; // this will make non-client area empty return
    CExtMenuControlBar::WindowProc(message, wParam, lParam); 
}