How to Highlight a clicked menu item of a menustrip in vb.net

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I want to change the back colour of the clicked menu item of a menustrip .The menu item will change back to its default colours if other menu item gets clicked

Posted 26-Feb-15 6:04am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 26-Feb-15 12:31pm

Do you mean this class: System.Windows.Forms.MenuStrip? Anything else? Please, to greatly reduce the chance of misunderstanding and waste of time, always provide the full name of some types in question.
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Member 11482855 26-Feb-15 13:06pm

yes . I am new to the forum ...will surely try to give more descriptive questions from now

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ZurdoDev · Answer 1 · 2015-02-26T06:27:00

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Use one of the events on the MenuStrip, like the Click event: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.menustrip_events(v=vs.110).aspx[^]

Posted 26-Feb-15 6:27am

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Member 11482855 26-Feb-15 12:32pm

I have tried a lot of those events ,but nothing worked for me. i have already worked out the hover colour with the Rendering.
But i need to highlight the clicked item of the menustrip.

ZurdoDev 26-Feb-15 12:39pm

Perhaps you should post your code then and show us where you are stuck.

Member 11482855 26-Feb-15 13:02pm

This code has no effect on my project

Member 11482855 · Answer 2 · 2015-02-26T07:01:00

Dim normalColor As Color = SystemColors.Control
Dim highlightColor As Color = Color.FromArgb(91, 153, 153)

Private Sub MenuStrip1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MenuStrip1.Click
Dim gv As ToolStripButton = TryCast(sender, ToolStripButton)
OneToolStripMenuItem.BackColor = normalColor
TwoToolStripMenuItem.BackColor = normalColor
ThreeToolStripMenuItem.BackColor = normalColor
FourToolStripMenuItem.BackColor = normalColo
gv.BackColor = highlightColor