Owner draw Menu with selection highlight
Imports System Imports System.Drawing Imports System.Windows.Forms Public Class MainClass Shared Sub Main() Dim form1 As Form = New Form1 Application.Run(form1) End Sub End Class Public Class Form1 Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form #Region " Windows Form Designer generated code " Public Sub New() MyBase.New() 'This call is required by the Windows Form Designer. InitializeComponent() 'Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call End Sub 'Form overrides dispose to clean up the component list. Protected Overloads Overrides Sub Dispose(ByVal disposing As Boolean) If disposing Then If Not (components Is Nothing) Then components.Dispose() End If End If MyBase.Dispose(disposing) End Sub 'Required by the Windows Form Designer Private components As System.ComponentModel.IContainer 'NOTE: The following procedure is required by the Windows Form Designer 'It can be modified using the Windows Form Designer. 'Do not modify it using the code editor. Friend WithEvents MainMenu1 As System.Windows.Forms.MainMenu Friend WithEvents mnuFile As System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem Friend WithEvents mnuNew As System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem Friend WithEvents mnuOpen As System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem Friend WithEvents mnuSave As System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem <System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThrough()> Private Sub InitializeComponent() Me.components = New System.ComponentModel.Container() Me.MainMenu1 = New System.Windows.Forms.MainMenu() Me.mnuFile = New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem() Me.mnuNew = New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem() Me.mnuOpen = New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem() Me.mnuSave = New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem() ' 'MainMenu1 ' Me.MainMenu1.MenuItems.AddRange(New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem() {Me.mnuFile}) ' 'mnuFile ' Me.mnuFile.Index = 0 Me.mnuFile.MenuItems.AddRange(New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem() {Me.mnuNew, Me.mnuOpen, Me.mnuSave}) Me.mnuFile.Text = "File" ' 'mnuNew ' Me.mnuNew.Index = 0 Me.mnuNew.OwnerDraw = True Me.mnuNew.Text = "New" ' 'mnuOpen ' Me.mnuOpen.Index = 1 Me.mnuOpen.OwnerDraw = True Me.mnuOpen.Text = "Open" ' 'mnuSave ' Me.mnuSave.Index = 2 Me.mnuSave.OwnerDraw = True Me.mnuSave.Text = "Save" ' 'Form1 ' Me.AutoScaleBaseSize = New System.Drawing.Size(5, 14) Me.ClientSize = New System.Drawing.Size(292, 266) Me.Font = New System.Drawing.Font("Tahoma", 8.25!, System.Drawing.FontStyle.Regular, System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit.Point, CType(0, Byte)) Me.Menu = Me.MainMenu1 Me.Name = "Form1" Me.Text = "Owner-Drawn Menu" End Sub #End Region Private Sub mnu_MeasureItem(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MeasureItemEventArgs) Handles mnuNew.MeasureItem, mnuOpen.MeasureItem, mnuSave.MeasureItem Dim mnuItem As MenuItem = CType(sender, MenuItem) Dim MenuFont As New Font("Tahoma", 8) e.ItemHeight = e.Graphics.MeasureString(mnuItem.Text, MenuFont).Height + 5 e.ItemWidth = e.Graphics.MeasureString(mnuItem.Text, MenuFont).Width + 30 End Sub Dim MenuImage As Image = New Bitmap("figure2.bmp") Private Sub mnu_DrawItem(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.DrawItemEventArgs) Handles mnuNew.DrawItem, mnuOpen.DrawItem, mnuSave.DrawItem Dim mnuItem As MenuItem = CType(sender, MenuItem) If e.State And DrawItemState.Selected = DrawItemState.Selected Then e.DrawBackground() End If e.Graphics.DrawImage(MenuImage, e.Bounds.Left + 3, e.Bounds.Top + 2) e.Graphics.DrawString(mnuItem.Text, e.Font, New SolidBrush(e.ForeColor), e.Bounds.Left + 25, e.Bounds.Top + 3) End Sub End Class