Thanks for your reply, it really helped me but actually I am tring to make a control and I dont want to write any extra code to use it. I want it to be as simple as using the menus provided by >net ramework or the other 3rd party controls.
I think I will go by your advise to create an extender.
"Mick Doherty" wrote:
> The MenuDesigner is Private so you cannot derive from MainMenu and get it to
> use your custom menuitems.
> You have options though:
>
> 1. Code the Paint and MeasureItem Events for every MenuItem after setting
> them to OwnerDraw.
>
> 2. Create your menu as usual and, once you've defined all the menuitems,
> expand the 'Windows Form Designer generated code' region and do a search and
> replace of 'System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem' with 'MyNameSpace.MyMenuItem'
> (assuming that's the NameSpace and Name of your custom MenuItem)
>
> 3. Create a MenuExtender component to extend the properties of standard
> MenuItems.
>
> An Office Style Menu Class(Source Code)
>
http://dotnetrix.co.uk/menus.html >
> A MenuExtender(No Source, but you will find source for similar components
> via Google)
>
http://dotnetrix.co.uk/controls.html --> MenuSkinner
>
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>
> "Raj Singh Sisodia" <RajSinghSisodia@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:D478CB2C-3950-45E9-A89C-AE6F48921FA4@microsoft.com...
> > Hello Sir/Madam,
> > I am tring to create Menu and toolbar controls that looks like the one
> used in Office Xp. I have trird using the Menu class to create my own
> myMainMenu and MyMenuItem but in Ide after I put myMainMenu and try to
> create the subitems it creates MenuItem rather than myMenuItem how do i
> solve this problem. Also what would be the right way to achive my target
> create from scratch or use these base classes. If you could frovide any
> further information that I havent aksed you are most welcome. Also I am a
> VB.NET not c# so please keep that in mind when you reply.
> >
> > Regards
> > Raj Singh Sisodia
> > --
> > I am here to solve problems and add a few of mine to yours
>
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