[2005] Bling up my app :D

[Icyculyr]

I want to make my application look very cool...

Basically what I want to do:
1: Modify the window borders & caption (etc....), so they look cool
2: Make my context menus / Menu strips / tool strip menu items, look really cool
3: Modify the way my buttons look when I hold my mouse over them / click them...
4: Is any of this possible :P (for me, hah)

2 is the most important to me though, I have a lot of those things... and I want to make them look really good, like for example:
when you hold your mouse over a Menu Strip Item, it turns a really nice orange with a border, and the same over Tool Strip Menu Items... I am wondering how to change these? etc... so they look awesome

Thanks

[Shaggy Hiker]

Some of those changes, though only the most trivial ones, could be done using the MouseOver event. As long as all you are doing is altering things within the borders that MS IDE gives you (colors and fonts, mostly), that would work. However, it sounds like you want to go beyond that, and I would expect that you are going to have to do some kind of custom graphics work to get there. I've never tried that because I realized long long ago, that I have no taste.

[RobDog888]

The only way to do what you want properly is to do OwnerDrawing on everything. Too much work IMO but search msdn docs for the topic and you will seee what I mean.

[chris128]

I asked this same question when I was fairly new here...trust me its more hassle than its worth..

[Fromethius]

This might help:

http://vbforums.com/showthread.php?t...ghlight=Tetris