office xp style menus

is there an easy way to use office xp style menus? with the blue highlighting, or could you also change that highlighting to say red?

Yes , you can change it to any color .

is there an easy way to set that up? or is there something i am missing in the main menu item?

Try this
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...highlight=menu

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Originally posted by deoblo1
is there an easy way to set that up? or is there something i am missing in the main menu item?

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You must change OwnerDraw = true , otherwise the changes you make won't affect the menuitems .

If you don't mind paying for a 3rd party control, Devcomponents DotNetBar suite does this.

http://www.devcomponents.com/dotnetbar/

No need to pay anything . There are a lot of XP Style Menus on the net for free . They are all work fine .

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Originally posted by Pirate
No need to pay anything . There are a lot of XP Style Menus on the net for free . They are all work fine .

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urls?

I uploaded a proj in the above link ,

here is #1 :
http://www.vbsmart.com/library/library.htm

here is #2
http://www.Planet-Source-Code.com/vb...=918&lngWId=10

Just search the net .

www.dotnetmagic.com

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Originally posted by Redth
www.dotnetmagic.com

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This suckx .....:confused:

what's wrong with dotnetmagic? just because it uses some api's ?

dotnetmagic is a good thing to have i recon , but you cant beat making your own designs . and to be honest colouring / adding icons in vb.net is a stroll in the park compared to the api's we used to have to use in vb6 etc...

if you create a common handler for the drawitem and measureitem subs you can handle it all in a couple of small functions , eg :

VB Code:

Private WithEvents mnuItems As MenuItem
 
 
    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        AddHandler MenuItem2.MeasureItem, AddressOf mnuItems_MeasureItem
        AddHandler MenuItem3.MeasureItem, AddressOf mnuItems_MeasureItem
        AddHandler MenuItem2.DrawItem, AddressOf mnuItems_DrawItem
        AddHandler MenuItem3.DrawItem, AddressOf mnuItems_DrawItem
    End Sub
 
 
    Private Sub mnuItems_MeasureItem(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MeasureItemEventArgs) Handles mnuItems.MeasureItem
        With e
            .ItemHeight = 20
            .ItemWidth = 100
        End With
    End Sub
 
' //// and then just draw the item's / add icons as you require.

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Originally posted by Redth
what's wrong with dotnetmagic? just because it uses some api's ?

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No , and what's wrong with APIs ? I love working with APIs . They do the job perfectly .

What's the limitation of the DotNetMagic demo?

dotnetmagic is open source

you can change it code if u want and if u dont like dll's u can even put the code inside your .exe so you just have a single file to distribute!

So the demo version for it contains the does not source code?

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Originally posted by PT Exorcist
dotnetmagic is open source

you can change it code if u want and if u dont like dll's u can even put the code inside your .exe so you just have a single file to distribute!

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Don't you think it has some issues with Licenses ?

yeah damn u're right

anyways my proggys are just for me and a couple of friends(at least until now) so i dont have big problems with it

but if u're goin sell it then youu might have some problems with it

The above links are Free and open source . I've seen one of them ago , it's freaking cool .:)