Hello,

I have attached a context menu to a notify icon. The problem is that when I
run the program I get blank text for the items on the context menu, they
work fine, but no text is shown and the menu items themselves have a width
large enough for an icon.

Any ideas?
Simon Jefferies
Tools Programmer
Headfirst Productions
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* "Simon Jefferies" <(E-Mail Removed)> scripsit:
> I have attached a context menu to a notify icon. The problem is that when I
> run the program I get blank text for the items on the context menu, they
> work fine, but no text is shown and the menu items themselves have a width
> large enough for an icon.

Does this sample work?

<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/samples/windowsandforms/downloads/SimpleNotifyIcon.zip>

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>

Yes, that sample worked!

The only difference i can see is that the I've created the menu and trayicon
using the designer rather coding it.

One other difference, I've just noticed is that the "Owner Draw" property
keeps getting set to TRUE. This is probably the cause? I have tried to set
if back to FALSE, but it keeps changing. I've recreated the menu items and
that hasn't made any differences.

Any ideas?

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Regards
Simon Jefferies
Tools Programmer, Headfirst Productions
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"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hirf-spam-me-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>* "Simon Jefferies" <(E-Mail Removed)> scripsit:
>> I have attached a context menu to a notify icon. The problem is that when
>> I
>> run the program I get blank text for the items on the context menu, they
>> work fine, but no text is shown and the menu items themselves have a
>> width
>> large enough for an icon.
>
> Does this sample work?
>
> <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/samples/windowsandforms/downloads/SimpleNotifyIcon.zip>
>
> --
> Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
> <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>

* "Simon Jefferies" <(E-Mail Removed)> scripsit:
> One other difference, I've just noticed is that the "Owner Draw" property
> keeps getting set to TRUE. This is probably the cause? I have tried to set
> if back to FALSE, but it keeps changing. I've recreated the menu items and
> that hasn't made any differences.

That's the cause, but I feel sorry, I don't know any reason why this
property is set to 'True' automatically.

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>