animation in menubar like in IE

[Brian Henry]

Does anyone know of a way to create a "busy" flag like IE and OE have in
their menu bar on the right side? I'd like to put something in one in my app
so the user can tell when it is busy processing or something like that..
thanks!

 

[Scott Swigart [MVP]]

You want to look into something called "owner drawing". Here's a start:

http://www.vb-helper.com/howto_net_ownerdraw_menu.html

 

[Brian Henry]

I know what owner drawing is, but it never seems to let me draw on the
actual menu bar which is where i need to place the graphic

 

[Mick Doherty]

You'll need to do that via Interop.

Draw directly on the menubar.
http://www.dotnetrix.co.uk/menus.html --> Custom MenuBar color
Use CreatePatternBrush instead of CreateSolidBrush.


Add a right-aligned ownerdraw menuitem.
http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=rightalignmenuitem&lang=en