Popup Menu and transparency

[Lemen]

Hello

With the recent update to Popup Menu;
popupmenu.library 53.11
PopupMenu 53.7

there is too much transparency. How to independently adjust transparency level of Popup Menu please?

[xenic]

@Lemen
The popup menus appear to have the same transparency as inactive windows; which can be changed in GUI/effects prefs. It sort of limits your transparency settings for inactive windows since the popup menus can become unreadable.

[Lemen]

There seems to be at least two prefs settings which have effect on the popup menu when they shouldn't;

Prefs/GUI/Effects
Set Inactive windows to 20%

Prefs/GUI/Menus/Appearance properties;
If you now click Transparency on/off and check the Popup menu transparency
each time, you can see that a percentage of transparency is added to the
Popup menu aswell as the main Workbench menus.

[chris]

There seems to be at least two prefs settings which have effect on the popup menu when they shouldn't;

Prefs/GUI/Effects
Set Inactive windows to 20%

Prefs/GUI/Menus/Appearance properties;
If you now click Transparency on/off and check the Popup menu transparency
each time, you can see that a percentage of transparency is added to the
Popup menu aswell as the main Workbench menus.

Yeah, I have my inactive windows set to 10% (and the effects off). My main menus are set to 10% transparency. However, the popup menus are more transparent than the main ones.

This is clearly a bug. They ought to have the same transparency as the pull-down menus, or (maybe, but seems unnecessary) have their own setting. It shouldn't be pulling up random values from the config, adding them together and applying them.

[xenic]

@chris
I also notice that the GUI/menus/transparency setting only affects the menu background; the text remains dark and readable. The GUI/Effects/Inactive window/transparency setting causes the popup menu text and background to become transparent which might account for the "compounded" transparency you are observing.

This problem affects more than just Workbench context menus. Dopus4 also uses popupmenu.library for the lister popup menu. Other programs may also be using the library directly and suffering the same problem.

MUI popup menus seem to be totally unaffected by any system transparency settings. Maybe popupmenu.library should be using the same popup menu method as MUI and then use the transparency setting from GUI/menus/transparency.

[Phantom]

Yes, with the recent update I have the same problem and fiddling with the GUI prefs doesn't seems to solve the problem. The context menus are too much transparant compared to pull-down menus which they appear as they should.