I got transparency working for Start Menu icons!! >:) the trick is to set hbmpItem to HBMMENU_CALLBACK and then draw the icon yourself (with DrawIconEx) instead of using a bitmap! I also fixed the spacing between the icon and text (b[0] = L' '; strcpy(b+1,a);… ^^;)

alt text corrections: the icon next to “Run…” is the little pixel art of a wine glass“respective” not “respect”

I have discovered that the spacing of the text on Start Menu icons differs between at least these three Windows versions and now I will never know peace I am not going to check more versions I don't want to worsen the feeling that no spacing is correct

æsthetically I prefer a much narrower spacing but I have realised that the wide gap Microsoft put between the icon and text makes it easier for your brain to separate them when trying to scan through the titles

dear diary: today I actually had a use for a The Old New Thing post https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110127-00/?p=11653

🎉 just got our* first commit merged into upstream WINE!! Start Menu icons are on master now

it'll be fun if the loss32 PoC ships a version of WINE that has zero non-upstream content eheheh

• under our legal name because of WINE's real names policy, sigh

writing COM code for the first time this is a COBJMACROS appreciation post ❤️❤️❤️COBJMACROS❤️❤️❤️