menubar customisation issue

[Paul Abad]

hi guys

i'm building an app with mx2004, and i'm using the menubar component.  i'm trying to customise it as much as possible, i've managed to achieve this for the menu bar itself, using styles mainly and some changing of the skins too, but i can't seem to be able to change the menus that appear when the bar is clicked - i'm trying to change the colour or alpha of the menu that appears when the bar is clicked, but i can't find this anywhere in the styles of the menubar component, or in the menubar skin assets.  any suggestions?

thanks
paul  

[Jorge Solis]

Hi Paul, welcome to the Boards!

You have borderColors, highlightColor, etc. Download Using_components.pdf from http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flash/index.html and check "Customizing the Menu Bar component" in the Menu Bar item from the Components Dictionary.

Jorge

[Paul Abad]

thanks for your reply jorge, gave that a try but it seems to have no effect.

i'm using the following code ..

_root.myMenuBar.setStyle("borderColor", 0x000000);

or

_root.myMenuBar.setStyle("highlightColor", 0x000000);

with no results - still fully white menus pop up.

is that the correct implementation of that component style?  other styles i'm implementing like font family and font size seem to work with that syntax.

i also tried applying the style to the specific menus that appear within the menu bar - also no result.  mmmmm.

any thoughts?

[Dirk Watkins]

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//background blue
_root.myMenuBar.setStyle("backgroundColor", "0x0000FF");


[Paul Abad]

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thanks!