Customising context menu

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HI all,
I want to customise the context menu for my application,(i.e) I want to add the picture box to the context menu item. how can i do this?

Posted 19-Sep-10 20:54pm

krishnakumar_L

Updated 19-Sep-10 20:55pm

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Simon_Whale 20-Sep-10 4:25am

you need to clarify your question more! are you wanting to add a picture box to the context menu? or fire a context menu from the picture box?

Sandeep Mewara 20-Sep-10 5:30am

Apart from what Simon asked, do add what have you tried so far?

krishnakumar_L 20-Sep-10 11:46am

i don't want to fire a context menu from the picture box, instead i want to add a picture box to the context menu, we can add a text box in the context menu and it is "toolstiptextbox" , like that way i want to add a picture box inside a context menu item.

krishnakumar_L 20-Sep-10 11:51am

hi sandeep first of all tanks for giving a comment, I have trying to customize the context menu. i tried in google and searched in net i cant find any solution for this. i hope some one could help me.

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2010-09-21T10:33:00

Solution 1

Usually, you don't add a picturebox control to the menu. You owner draw the menu and draw the image you want appropriately.

See this list[^] of articles.

Posted 21-Sep-10 10:33am

Dave Kreskowiak

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krishnakumar_L 22-Sep-10 3:11am

thanks Dave, I too tried that but i cant get good look and feel in that. in one half of the menu item the image is displayed ,and in set the text blank, and also i set the property to show only the image . but still i can see the text area.. but if we can add the picture box there, i thought it could be resolved...

Dave Kreskowiak 22-Sep-10 7:59am

This question should not have been posted in Quick Answers. There's too much discussion on it and it's not a good place to post code snippets. Repost this in the forums and post the rendering code you have for the context menu.

Dave Kreskowiak 22-Sep-10 8:00am

BTW: In order to put a picturebox on the context menu you have to OwnerDraw the context menu anyway...

Prerak Patel · Answer 2 · 2010-09-23T01:22:00

i think you should override Paint method.

VB

Private Sub ToolStripMenuItem1_Paint(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs) Handles ToolStripMenuItem1.Paint
  DirectCast(sender, ToolStripMenuItem).DisplayStyle = ToolStripItemDisplayStyle.None
  e.Graphics.DrawImage(My.Resources.attach, 0, 0, e.ClipRectangle.Width, e.ClipRectangle.Height)
End Sub