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Subject: Re: Anyone changed menu or menubar colors under Windows 2K+ ?
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il> writes:

> > From: jasonr (Jason Rumney) @  f2s.com
> > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> > Date: 07 Jun 2003 01:02:12 +0100
> > >  
> > > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\GNU\Emacs] 
> > > "Emacs.menubar.Background"="midnight blue"
> > 
> > Emacs uses native menus on Windows, thus the only way to change their
> > color is through the control panel, along with other Windows
> > applications.
> 
> IMHO, that should be spelled out in the manual (unless it already is).

The manual is a bit vague, it says that "some" resources can be set
in the registry on Windows. I have updated it to explicitly state
that the menu and scroll-bar resources are not configurable in this
way on Windows.