owner drawn menus

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Would I be better off to just inherit the menu control and make my own owner
drawn menu control.

Had lots of experience with controls in VB5 and 6 but none so far in .NET

You would think MS would have included icons for menus in the basic control.
Everyone wants it.

Do you all consider this to be a difficult task? Or should it be simple and
the best way to go.

Seems to me that all I'd need to do is trap a few events, add a place to
hold images, paint them in the paint event,etc.

Thanks for any opinions on doing this and the degree of difficulty.

Shane

I'd rather do this than license a control that isn't mine and have to deal
with the license. --just to get simple pictures on the menu items
 
Hi Shane,

There's a fine control available for this at www.divil.co.uk completely free
and license issues free; I use it myself.

If you want to draw your own, take a look at this month's MSDN mag - Dino
Esposito has an article on this very issue.

HTH,

Bernie Yaeger
 
Thanks Mick,

This is very interesting. How about the rest of the group?

Does anyone else know of a way to inherit the menu control and customize
items or can that not be done?

May Microsoft will respond and tell us if there is no way to do this.

thanks,

Shane

"Mick Doherty"
 
Thanks for the info and site. There are some cool controls there.
But for profit apps do have to buy them.

I have bookmarked the site and will keep it in mind. It is a great
reference.

Shane
 
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