Improvement of the .NET Menu Style class

• Download the new .NET style menu class - 4.75 Kb
• Download a C# RTF file editor project with .NET style menu - 111 Kb

Introduction

With this new ".NET Menu Style" class you can get a great menu with only few lines of code. You don't have to write a line of code for each menu item because your menu now will be AUTOMATICALLY updated! This is very useful, 'cause now you can still build and update your menu with the VS.NET tool, but at runtime you'll have always a new fresh .NET style menu. Another improvement is about the menu images, now you can use a simple imagelist to store your icon, and with a line of code and a simple trick (to add the index of the image near the text of the menu item), you'll get your image near your menu item.

I've updated this class, now you can use icons with context menu and search for a MenuItem at runtime with an easy function. Now you can also download a nice RTF file editor that use the .NET style menu. This RTF file editor is still under development, however it's already a good example of C# programming.

Using the code

You have to add:

using Utility.NiceMenu;

and after the "InitializeComponent()" code:

NiceMenu myNiceMenu = new NiceMenu();
myNiceMenu.UpdateMenu(this.nameofyourmainmenu, 
    new NiceMenuClickEvent(nameofyourclickfunction));

If you want to add some incons in your menu you have to:

• add an imagelist control in your form
• add your icons in your imagelist control
• add in your menu items the index of the icon in the first two characters. For example:
• 00New
• 01Open
• 02Close
• After the NiceMenu myNiceMenu = new NiceMenu(); code you have to add this simple line of code:
  

myNiceMenu.imgMenu = nameofyourimagelist; 

Points of Interest

There are a lot of comments with the code, so... enjoy!

History

This is an improvement by Francesco Natali over an improvement by Sajith M of the "Visual Studio .NET Menu Style" by Carlos H. Perez

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