The DropDown triangle's color in a ToolStripDropDownButton

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Novice

Hi there - if I try to set the BackColor and ForeColor of a ToolStrip
- like this:

this.toolStrip1.BackColor = Color.Black;
this.toolStrip1.ForeColor = Color.White;


The ToolStripDropDownButton's drop down triangle remains black - which
makes it invisible - until the user moves their mouse over the control
- because then the back color changes to a lighter shade.

The only member of ToolStripDropDownButton associated with that
triange is whether to show it - i.e.
ToolStripDropDownButton.ShowDropDownArrow


There doesn't appear to be a way to set its color - does anyone have
any suggestions on how to update its color so that it is contrasted
with the selected back color? My guess is that my only two options
are:
1. Override the OnPaint for the ToolStripDropDownButton - which would
be way more work than I want to invest to get this working
2. Add something other than ToolStripDropDownButtons to my ToolStrip -
I think I've seen that you can add ComboBoxes or something to
ToolStrips - not sure? Is there an alternate GUI object I could use
that would allow this level of customization?

Thanks,
Novice
 

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