No colour for MainMenu?

**MrGTI** · Feb 7th, 2003, 09:31 AM

I was kind of surprised to see that the MainMenu control doesn't change colour when you change the colour of your form. And there is no "color" property for the MainMenu, so you can't set it manually.

Has anyone found a way to put a little colour into the MainMenu?

**Pirate** · Feb 7th, 2003, 09:43 AM

Originally posted by MrGTI
I was kind of surprised to see that the MainMenu control doesn't change colour when you change the colour of your form. And there is no "color" property for the MainMenu, so you can't set it manually.
Has anyone found a way to put a little colour into the MainMenu?

Did you try changing to Owner Draw ? you can use that to colorize your menu items .

**RealNickyDude** · Feb 7th, 2003, 10:40 AM

Could anyone point me in the right direction for some good Owner Draw tutorials?

**MrGTI** · Feb 7th, 2003, 11:02 AM

What the heck is Owner Draw?

**Pirate** · Feb 7th, 2003, 11:05 AM

Originally posted by RealNickyDude
Could anyone point me in the right direction for some good Owner Draw tutorials?

ONE TWO THREE

**Pirate** · Feb 7th, 2003, 11:06 AM

TRY THIS

**MrGTI** · Feb 7th, 2003, 03:24 PM

Cool stuff. I'm playing with it now, but i don't see any way to apply this to a MainMenu. Hopefully i can figure something out. Or if you have any tips, let me know.

**Pirate** · Feb 7th, 2003, 03:40 PM

here's one of many posts about menu owner draw :

**MrGTI** · Feb 7th, 2003, 09:37 PM

I tried and tired to figure out a way to make the MainMenu into "OwnerDraw" so i could colour it, but nothing i tried worked.

So i downloaded the MagicMenu. It's pretty sweet, and it's got all the bells and whistles you could ask for. It's a bugger to get all set up though. And i'll have to deploy it with any project i make using it, but i guess that's the price you have to pay if you want the cool stuff.

**crpietschmann** · Sep 28th, 2003, 06:58 PM

Try using the XPMenuItem objec that I created. It has the look of the menuitems in Office XP and Visual Studio .NET.

Get it from my site here: http://www.PietschSoft.com/Products

**dis1411** · Sep 29th, 2003, 10:00 AM

Originally posted by MrGTI
What the heck is Owner Draw?

it means the program creates the menu instead of asking windows to

**Pirate** · Sep 29th, 2003, 10:29 AM

This thread should be closed or I better unsubscribe.........

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