Changing Dropdown Menu foreground and background colors

larryseyer's icon

Does anybody know where I can find the settings that change the dropdown menu foreground and background colors?

I've found some things in the Inspector, but none of them seem to change the menu dropdown fonts, colors, or styles.

Any one know where this is?

larryseyer's icon

Anybody?

tada's icon

max7 umenu is not as much customizable as it was in max6. Although you can go with live.menu who has more parameters to change.

larryseyer's icon

Thank you!

I'll give live.menu a try.

All the best to you!

Larry

woodslanding's icon

How do you change the items in a live menu? I see the Range/Enum 'hidden' parameter, but I'm not sure how to use it. I get "live.menu doesn't understand 'Range/Enum'.

larryseyer's icon

You can edit using the inspector.

But you may be referring to the problem I am currently having with live.menu.

As far as I can tell, you can't 'load it on the fly' like you can umenu.

For instance, you can have midiinfo 'bang' a list of MIDI devices into umenu for selection.

But I haven't been able to figure out how to do that with live.menu.

Anyone have any ideas?

L

woodslanding's icon

Yeah, a menu that can only be filled by typing in the inspector is only useful for a handful of things.

I guess I don't need different colors that bad ;) I haven't discovered any other way in which live.menu is superior.

larryseyer's icon

Agreed.

Seems to me this is something that should be addressed with an update... (i.e. making umenu be completely configurable color-wise, including the drop down menu items)

Anyone else have a solution this this problem?

L

woodslanding's icon

okay, answer here in the forums at:

Parameters don't follow the regular Max varnum labeling scheme, but they are still addressable. Was able to reset menu values.

I think I will find it handy to fill menus from a single list, instead of a bunch of append commands.

-e

larryseyer's icon

Thank you!

That is EXACTLY what I was looking for!

This forum is AWESOME for this kind of info!

Thank you again!

Larry