YANQ - Yet Another Newbie Question - Menus

[Larry J Siddens]

How do you add the bitmaps (without pulling teeth) to the menus? Larry J. Siddens

[Heath Stewart]

Dr. GUI on MSDN had an article some time back that presented a pretty easy way of doing it: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnaskdr/html/askgui11062001.asp[^]. You should also check out the articles here on CodeProject by searching the site. There has been several articles discussing other ways or even providing libraries if you don't want to write your own.

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[Larry J Siddens]

So, there is no easy way to enable the XP styles for the menus like you can for the controls? Fooie! Larry J. Siddens

[Heath Stewart]

XP visual styles have nothing to do with bitmaps on menu items. They are entirely independent of each other. You asked about menu item bitmaps - not XP visual styles. I have written an article on XP visual styles here: http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/dotnetvisualstyles.asp[^] If you are using .NET 1.1 or higher, you can also call Application.EnableVisualStyles() before you call Application.Run in your entry point method (Main). That's also mentioned in the article forum for the article link I gave you above.

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[blakeb_1]

You could use the Magic Library. It has Windox XP style menu components. You can get it on the code project site.