Theme-Compliant Menus

Menus allow users to view or choose from a list of choices and commands that your application provides. You can use the Menu Manager to create, display, and manage standard Mac OS menus. To be theme-compliant, your program should either use standard menus or use the Appearance Manager to adapt your custom menu and menu bar elements. For examples and descriptions of standard Mac OS 8. x menus, see the Mac OS 8 Human Interface Guidelines at

<http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/HIGOS8Guide/thig-2.html>

The Appearance Manager provides the following functions for drawing theme-compliant custom menus:

DrawThemeMenuBackground draws a menu background.
GetThemeMenuBackgroundRegion obtains the background region for a menu.

The Appearance Manager provides the following functions for drawing theme-compliant custom menu titles:

DrawThemeMenuTitle draws a menu title.
GetThemeMenuTitleExtra obtains a measurement of the space to either side of a menu title.

The Appearance Manager provides the following functions for drawing theme-compliant custom menu items:

DrawThemeMenuItem draws a menu item.
DrawThemeMenuSeparator draws a menu item separator line.
GetThemeMenuItemExtra obtains a measurement of the space surrounding a menu item.
GetThemeMenuSeparatorHeight obtains the height of a menu separator line.

The Appearance Manager provides the following functions for drawing theme-compliant custom menu bars:

DrawThemeMenuBarBackground draws a menu bar background.
GetThemeMenuBarHeight obtains the optimal height of a menu bar.