I know Austin is gonna hate this one passionately, but there are still gumps out there that use the built in gumps - CreateMenu, AddMenuItem and SelectMenuItem2.

For a quick selection gump it's a winner for simplicity. You can knock together an entire option selection system in a few lines.

Can I ask one tiny change - add a parameter to CreateMenu to select the background picture sets. Or is it your policy to fix in place really hard to read gump backgrounds?

A little add...

Could fourth parameter in AddMenuItem(menu, objtype, text, color) have a special value (-1?) to force reading item color from itemdesc.cfg?
Like in menus.cfg...