Context menu heading

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I want to add a heading for the context menu.
The heading to be not clickable, with gray back ground with bold text.
I tried by searching and using ownerdraw and drawitem but not succeeded.
when ownerdraw of menuitem set to true and drawitem is used for drawing the contextmenu is not drawing the menuitem.

I want like this

Heading (in bold with gray background and not clickable)
MenuItem1
MenuItem2
MenuItem3

Can anyone please help.

Thanks

Posted 1-Jun-12 14:31pm

Csharp_Learner

Updated 1-Jun-12 14:34pm

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Tim Corey · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-01T15:08:00

Solution 1

I don't think you can do it in the designer but I did come across a way to do it programmatically:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4595116/c-sharp-context-menu[^]

The relevant code from this article (again,not mine but from this article so this is a quote from Hans Passant):

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contextMenuStrip1.Items.Insert(0, new ToolStripLabel("Please select an option"));
contextMenuStrip1.Items.Insert(1, new ToolStripSeparator());

Posted 1-Jun-12 15:08pm

Tim Corey

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Csharp_Learner 1-Jun-12 23:37pm

Thank you very much.
Earlier I used ContextMenu which has MenuItems property which allowed only MenuItem object.
With your solution I used ContextMenuStrip which allowed ToolStripLabel. I set ToolStripLabel1.BackColor = Color.DarkBlue;
It did not work. So I used Paint event of ToolStripLabel
var heading = new ToolStripLabel("--Select an Option--");
heading.Paint += heading_Paint;
ContextMenuStrip.Items.Add(heading);
void heading_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e) {
e.Graphics.FillRectangle(Brushes.DarkBlue, e.ClipRectangle);
e.Graphics.DrawString((sender as ToolStripLabel).Text, new Font("Arial", 8, FontStyle.Bold), Brushes.White, e.ClipRectangle);
}

Then it worked.

Thank you again for the help :-D