DropDownButton outside of a Toolbar

[segfault]

Is it possible in .NET to easily make a drop down button control, such as you might find in a toolbar, but in another location on a form?

To be more precise, what I want is a button with two functions, depending on which part is clicked. The greatest area is on the left side, represented by the icon for the button, and has the default action. A small sliver on the right side of the button is represented by a drop down arrow, and presents a menu when clicked.

This is very intuitive behaviour, and I really want to use it in an application, but the only control I can find with this behaviour is the toolbarbutton control

[RobDog888]

Welcome to the Forums.

Yes, you can display the popup dropdown menu of a toolbar button manually via code in any location of the form.

I have some code, hold on...

[RobDog888]

I found it. It shouws how to call the drowdown menu from a toolbar button click and position it. Just change the X/Y location to position the menu where you want.

http://www.vbforums.com/showpost.php...18&postcount=8

Moved from .NET Architecture and Design

[jmcilhinney]

I think the point here is that segfault doesn't want to use a Toolbar, but rather just a regular Button on a form with the same behaviour as a ToolBarButton with a drop-down menu. You can easily display a drop-down menu when a Button is clicked by creating a ContextMenu and calling its Show method from the Button's Click event handler. You pass the Button as the first argument and the relative location as the second. Given that you want to have a two part button, I'd say that your best bet would be to create a UserControl that contained two Buttons adjacent to each other and a ContextMenu. You may have to fiddle with things a bit to make it look like two parts of the same button rather than two seperate buttons. There is plenty of information in the help or at MSDN on-line about creating UserControls.

[segfault]

Thanks for the responses, guys. jmcilhinney hit the nail on the head. I haven't educated myself on .NET user controls, but as long as it's well documented, i'll be ok.

On a different subject, since I'm new here, will someone explain why this thread was not appropriate for the .NET Architecture and Design forum? I'm actually developing in C#, but the prebuilt controls are language independant, right?