Changing the background color of the MainMenu or of a ToolBar

[mondi]

Hello everybody. I am trying to change the colors of the MainMenu and of a toolbar but I didn't find any way how to do it. It always takes the default color for the toobar, which is the Control Color. I have created to components MainMenuPr and ToolBarPr that inherit respectively from the MainMenu and ToolBar of the System.Windows.Forms
Any help would be very appreciated!

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[apc2004]

mmm...

Maybe you can create a new User Control that inherits from System.Windows.Forms.MainMenu then override the OnPaint or OnPaintBackground event and handle the colours from there.

Regards...

 

[JurkMonkey]

I've tried that before - and it doesn't really work.

You're better off creating your own menu control. This is a good chunk of work though.

The other option is to look into the controls used in MS Office as they can be accessed by C#. You'll need to look it up on

http://msdn.microsoft.com

 

[mondi]

Thank you guys. I found an example at

http://www.codeproject.com

. I will have a look on it and see if I can find something helpful in that. But I am going to have a look at microsoft's web site like JurkMoney said. It seems really a very attractive idea to be able to use the controls used by MS Office
Cheers

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