Invisibile menus in Corel Draw X5

[Calab]

For some reason, the File, View, etc... menus are invisible in Corel Draw X5. If I mouse over them I can see the text.

Does anyone know why? Is there a fix?

 

[Calab]

...and an unrelated question...

Why doesn't PAINT show up in All Apps? Why can't I add it there?

 

[David Crabtree]

For some reason, the File, View, etc... menus are invisible in Corel Draw X5. If I mouse over them I can see the text.

Does anyone know why? Is there a fix?

View attachment 506

This is a problem for me too on CorelDraw X6. Same thing happens. I have tried searching in settings for Corel and cannot find anything that allows me to change the background color of this menu.

 

[David Crabtree]

So I tried this trick which changed by title bar for programs from a white color to blue, however it did not change the menu bar which I think is what i need to have changed. It has to be something to do with the Windows 10 themes. http://www.windowscentral.com/replace-those-white-title-bars-windows-10-colors-theme

 

[gorillale]

Hi, i have the same on Win10 and X6. Upper Link to change the theme dont work on me.

 

[David Crabtree]

Hi, i have the same on Win10 and X6. Upper Link to change the theme dont work on me.

Same here! X6.

The instructions above did not change anything.

 

[Bernie Velvick]

I got them to show up but only by changing to high contrast (white) settings in Ease of Access. It's a bit of a faff to change my theme every time I want to use CorelDraw but I don't like the high contrast setting for everything. Hope that helps until a more permanent fix turns up.

 

[CarstenN]

Hi to all,

here is my workaround to this problem:

Copy the theme You use 3 times to Your Desktop.
It is probably located in located in /Windows/resources/themes/

rename the first copy to "Normal theme".
whenever You doubleclick this file You will switch back to Your normal theme.

rename the 2. file to "Corel 1 Theme"

open this file with notepad

modyfy the section [VisualStyles] to

[VisualStyles]
Path=%SystemRoot%\resources\Themes\aero\aero.msstyles
ColorStyle=NormalColor
Size=NormalSize
HighContrast=5
AutoColorization=1


save changes

rename the 3. file to "Corel 2 Theme"

open this file with notepad

modyfy the section [VisualStyles] to

[VisualStyles]
Path=%SystemRoot%\resources\Themes\aero\aerolite.msstyles
ColorStyle=NormalColor
Size=NormalSize
HighContrast=5
AutoColorization=1


save changes

So now if You want to use Corel x5 just doubleclick "Corel 1 Theme" first.
Now You will be already able to see the menu in Corel but not the clock on the taskmenu in windows.

This will be solved by the doubleclick on" Corel 2 Theme".

I have no idea why i have to change the themes two times but at least it works. After this I work in Corel.

After leaving corel just doubleclick "Normal theme".



Overall this is 5 seconds more, the best I can do....

Hope this will help You

Carsten

 

[gorillale]

@CarstenN
Hi, thank you for this correction, but this is not the right way for me.
The Taskbar will be displayed ugly on this settings.

Corel should fix their scrap programing, that the right way.
Although I doubt that they will do that.

 

[Bernie Velvick]

Thanks Carsten, that's much easier than my clumsy fix.

 

[gorillale]

Is there someone who has the same problem with X7?

 

[gorillale]

Feedback: On the Corel Draw H&B Suite 7,
I not have this problem. All menu shows visible.