Set the OwnerDraw property to true and add event handlers for the DrawItem
and MeasureItem events of your menuitems. The following code assumes you
have a main menu called menuItem1 containing a number of submenus:
private void menuItem2_DrawItem(object sender,
System.Windows.Forms.DrawItemEventArgs e)
{
string menuCaption = this.menuItem1.MenuItems[e.Index].Text;
Brush bgBrush = ((e.State & DrawItemState.Selected) > 0) ?
Brushes.Gray : Brushes.Yellow;
Brush captionBrush = System.Drawing.Brushes.Blue;
Font captionFont = new Font(FontFamily.GenericSerif, 14,
FontStyle.Underline, GraphicsUnit.Pixel);
e.Graphics.FillRectangle(bgBrush, new Rectangle(e.Bounds.X,
e.Bounds.Y, e.Bounds.Width, e.Bounds.Height));
e.Graphics.DrawString(menuCaption, captionFont, captionBrush,
e.Bounds.X, e.Bounds.Y);
}
private void menuItem2_MeasureItem(object sender,
System.Windows.Forms.MeasureItemEventArgs e)
{
string menuCaption = this.menuItem1.MenuItems[e.Index].Text;
Font captionFont = new Font(FontFamily.GenericSerif, 14,
FontStyle.Underline, GraphicsUnit.Pixel);
SizeF mySizeF = e.Graphics.MeasureString(menuCaption,
captionFont);
e.ItemHeight = Convert.ToInt32(mySizeF.Height);
e.ItemWidth = Convert.ToInt32(mySizeF.Width);
}
HTH, Jakob.
