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Hi,

I have a intermediate check-box for a menu item, and it hardly noticeable from the normal checked items (last item vs the other items):

Can you please make it clearer that this item is in intermedialte state?

Thanks,

Ron.

Please find the following code in the CExtPaintManagerXP::PaintMenuItemIcon() method:

                           else if( _pmid.m_bIndeterminate )
                                    {
                                                clrIconBkHilight =
                                                            dc.GetNearestColor(
                                                                        stat_HLS_Adjust(
                                                                                    clrIconBkHilight,
                                                                                    0.0,
                                                                                    0.5,
                                                                                    0.5
                                                                                    )
                                                                        );
                                    }

And replace it with the following code:

                           else if( _pmid.m_bIndeterminate )
                                    {
                                                clrIconBkHilight =
                                                            dc.GetNearestColor(
                                                                        stat_HLS_Adjust(
                                                                                    clrIconBkHilight,
                                                                                    0.0,
                                                                                    0.85,
                                                                                    0.5
                                                                                    )
                                                                        );
                                    }

Dear Support,

It seems from you suggested change that you change the color of the box. What I think to be more apropriate is that instead of  a check mark when the box is in intermediate state, there will be a filled square, exactly like in a normal check-box.

Thanks,

Ron.

You asked us make indeterminate boxes in menu looking more different. We think the new lighter color makes them more different. But you just wrote <i>...filled square, exactly like in a normal check-box<>. If you need indeterminated menu boxes looking like simple checked boxes, then you can simply switch menu command state into checked state rather than into indeterminated state.

In normal check-box, when the box is in intermediate state, you draw a small square inside it. Can’t you do the same in the menu check-box?

Please download the source code update:

http://www.prof-uis.com/download/forums/tmp/Updated_Indermination_285.zip

If I was not clear - i expected it to be a square like in a check-box control, and not a ’V’...