Menu images.

21 Mar 2006 12:06 PM

Tull Clancey

Hi.

I have an application with several menus, see last post, still not resolved.

I have another problem....

The menus have been created using the menu editor, I can't find a way to add
icons to the menu items. I can find examples of creating the menus is code
and assigning icons, but nothing if I've created the menu system already.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Tull.

21 Mar 2006 7:51 PM

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

"Tull Clancey" <tull.clan***@btopenworld.com> schrieb:
> The menus have been created using the menu editor, I can't find a way to
> add icons to the menu items. I can find examples of creating the menus is
> code and assigning icons, but nothing if I've created the menu system
> already.

Which version of .NET are you using? If you are using .NET Framework 2.0,
you may want to replace the standard menu controls with MenuStrip controls
which provide design-time support for assigning images to the menu items.

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21 Mar 2006 9:21 PM

gene kelley

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:06:12 +0000 (UTC), "Tull Clancey"
<tull.clan***@btopenworld.com> wrote:

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>Hi.
>
>I have an application with several menus, see last post, still not resolved.
>
>I have another problem....
>
>The menus have been created using the menu editor, I can't find a way to add
>icons to the menu items. I can find examples of creating the menus is code
>and assigning icons, but nothing if I've created the menu system already.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Cheers,
>Tull.
>

I assume you are finding how to add a .bmp or .png image for
menustrips and toolstrips as a resource. With regards to .ico files,
the older 16 and 256 color .ico files cannot be used in design in
these controls. They can be used at runtime when converted to a
bitmap. However, .ico files that are of the XP variety will work. In
this case, when you go to import the resource, change the file type in
the file dialog to *.* all files. If the .ico file is of the XP type
it will load, but if the older variety, you will get an "invalid"
message.
(VB2005)

Gene