menu - How to change colours on wx FlatMenu

Question

I'm trying to create a popup menu which look could be completely customized. Since wx.Menu is based on native widget, I tried tu use FlatMenu, but even though the documentation states that such customization is possible, I failed to find out how to do it (except for the menu item text color). Could someone show me how to change background and border colours for FlatMenu on the following code (I don't use MenuBar, since I want to create a pop-up menu) ? Or, if I was wrong to believe it is possible with FlatMenu, can someone point me out another module that allows this?

import wx

from wx.lib.agw.flatmenu import FlatMenu as FlatMenu, FlatMenuItem as FlatMenuItem
class MyFrame(wx.Frame):

    def __init__(self, parent):

        wx.Frame.__init__(self, parent, -1, "FlatMenu Demo")

        panel = wx.Panel(self, -1)
        self.btn = wx.Button(panel, -1, "Hello", (15, 12), (100, 120))
        self.btn.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.pop)

        self.menubar = FlatMenuBar(self, -1)
        self.orderMenu = FlatMenu(panel)
        self.menubar.SetBackgroundColour(wx.RED)
         
        item_title = FlatMenuItem(self.orderMenu, 1, "Title",
                               "Sort by movie title", wx.ITEM_RADIO, None)
        self.Bind(wx.EVT_MENU, self.selected, id=1)
        self.orderMenu.AppendItem(item_title)
        self.Bind(wx.EVT_MENU, self.selected, item_title)
        
        item_year = FlatMenuItem(self.orderMenu, 2, "Year",
                               "Sort by year", wx.ITEM_RADIO, None)
        self.Bind(wx.EVT_MENU, self.selected, id=1)
        self.orderMenu.AppendItem(item_year)
        
        self.Bind(wx.EVT_MENU, self.selected, item_year)
        
        main_sizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
        main_sizer.Add(panel, 1, wx.EXPAND)

        self.SetSizer(main_sizer)
        main_sizer.Layout()


    def selected(self, event):
        print(event)
    
    
    def pop(self, event):
        print("pop")
        x, y = self.btn.GetScreenPosition()
        y = y+self.btn.GetSize()[1]
        self.orderMenu.Popup(wx.Point(x, y), self)

# our normal wxApp-derived class, as usual

app = wx.App(0)

frame = MyFrame(None)
app.SetTopWindow(frame)
frame.Show()

app.MainLoop()

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65888231/how-to-change-colours-on-wx-flatmenu

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