I have had problems with Pelles owner drawn menu (win2000 and Pelles C 5.00.6).
In 'InstallOwnerDrawMenuHandler' I made two changes
ncm.cbSize = sizeof(NONCLIENTMETRICS) - sizeof(ncm.iPaddedBorderWidth);
if (SystemParametersInfo(SPI_GETNONCLIENTMETRICS, ncm.cbSize, &ncm, 0))
g_hFont = CreateFontIndirect(&ncm.lfMenuFont);
Without this changes 'SystemParametersInfo' fails.
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