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Replaces the native menu bar with a custom-drawn toolbar row so quick-access icon buttons can share the same line as File/Edit/View. File/Edit/View are now flat buttons that open the same native submenus via TrackPopupMenu (all existing menu content, IDM_* command routing, and keyboard behavior within each dropdown is unchanged); New and Save As are icon buttons using Segoe Fluent Icons glyphs, with hover tooltips.

  • Custom BS_OWNERDRAW buttons throughout: standard BS_PUSHBUTTON always self-draws its 3D face using system colors and ignores WM_CTLCOLORBTN regardless of theme, so dark-themed buttons need full owner-draw (draw_toolbar_row_button).
  • The app's HMENU is now built once and kept in AppState (main_menu) instead of attached via SetMenu/CreateWindowExW; every menu-manipulation helper (checkmarks, enable/disable, Recent Files rebuild) was updated to read it from state directly. This also fixes a related bug: those helpers previously read the menu via GetWindowLongPtrW(hwnd, GWLP_USERDATA), which isn't set until after create_children() returns — so initial checkmark sync at startup was silently a no-op until the user toggled the setting manually once.

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Replaces the native menu bar with a custom-drawn toolbar row so quick-access
icon buttons can share the same line as File/Edit/View. File/Edit/View are
now flat buttons that open the same native submenus via TrackPopupMenu (all
existing menu content, IDM_* command routing, and keyboard behavior within
each dropdown is unchanged); New and Save As are icon buttons using Segoe
Fluent Icons glyphs, with hover tooltips.

- Custom BS_OWNERDRAW buttons throughout: standard BS_PUSHBUTTON always
  self-draws its 3D face using system colors and ignores WM_CTLCOLORBTN
  regardless of theme, so dark-themed buttons need full owner-draw
  (draw_toolbar_row_button).
- The app's HMENU is now built once and kept in AppState (main_menu) instead
  of attached via SetMenu/CreateWindowExW; every menu-manipulation helper
  (checkmarks, enable/disable, Recent Files rebuild) was updated to read it
  from state directly. This also fixes a related bug: those helpers
  previously read the menu via GetWindowLongPtrW(hwnd, GWLP_USERDATA), which
  isn't set until after create_children() returns — so initial checkmark
  sync at startup was silently a no-op until the user toggled the setting
  manually once.
Font was baked in on first use, often during early WM_CREATE/WM_SIZE
before Windows reports the window's final per-monitor DPI. Button
boxes already re-layout dynamically and pick up the corrected DPI,
but the glyph font stayed frozen at the wrong (usually 96 DPI) size,
so icons rendered undersized relative to their buttons on interactive
launches that hit the transient DPI window.
Dark theme colors the toolbar row the same background as the editor
and tabs below it, so without a seam the row visually blends into the
content area. Draws a DPI-scaled 1px line in a brighter dedicated
shade along the bottom edge to keep the separation visible.
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