Under windows, it's more complicated than changing a resource, but it's really not very difficult. Especially if all menu items are drawn with the same face. You just set MF_OWNERDRAW when creating the menu items, and then handle the WM_MEASUREITEM and WM_DRAWITEM messages. (Much like any other "owner draw" item under windows. In fact, most of the code can be salvaged from elsewhere.) Only took about 5 minutes to hack a menu in one of my programs to draw in different faces (a different face for each line). -Jim Potts Ben Wing <ben(a)666.com&gt; wrote: >in fact this is NOT hard or impossible under x, but is under windows. changing >x resources is easy from within the xemacs c code. > > > >"William M. Perry" wrote: >> >> Aaron Lehmann <aaronl(a)vitelus.com&gt; writes: >> >> > > I know this would be hard or impossible under X, but what about windows? >> > >> > Why would it be impossible under X? >> >> Because all that stuff lives beyond the control of XEmacs (at least it used >> to, I don't know about all the changes to lwlib that andy has done >> lately). Right now you can only specify it via X resources, not from >> lisp. >> >> -Bill P.