> Private Sub MarkVORToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As
> System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles
> MarkVORToolStripMenuItem.Click
>        If ContextMenuStrip1.SourceControl.BackgroundImage Is
> DrawCross() Then
>            msgbocx("test")
>        End If
>    End Sub
>
>
>    Friend Function DrawCross() As Bitmap
>        Dim sampleBitmap As New Bitmap(32, 32)
>        Dim g As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(sampleBitmap)
>        Dim p As New Pen(ProfessionalColors.ButtonPressedBorder)
>        p.Color = Color.Red
>        Try
>            p.Width = 2
>            g.DrawLine(p, -35, 65, 80, -45)
>            g.DrawLine(p, 200, 200, 0, 0)
>        Finally
>            p.Dispose()
>        End Try
>        Return sampleBitmap
>    End Function

> Marc wrote:
> > The below snippet does not work...anyone know how to reference the
> > procedure 'DrawCross()'?
>
> Every time you call DrawCross(), you're generating a new instance of a
> bitmap. That will never be the same instance you assigned to the
> BackgroundImage.
>
> The "is" operator is not a bitmap comparison operator. (Unless you were to
> overload it.)
>
> How about making your own extended MyContextMenuStrip inherits from
> ContextMenuStrip and has a String property you can set to change the
> BackgroundImage? (My nomenclature may be wrong.)
>
> Andrew
>
> > Private Sub MarkVORToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As
> > System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles
> > MarkVORToolStripMenuItem.Click
> >        If ContextMenuStrip1.SourceControl.BackgroundImage Is
> > DrawCross() Then
> >            msgbocx("test")
> >        End If
> >    End Sub
> >
> >
> >    Friend Function DrawCross() As Bitmap
> >        Dim sampleBitmap As New Bitmap(32, 32)
> >        Dim g As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(sampleBitmap)
> >        Dim p As New Pen(ProfessionalColors.ButtonPressedBorder)
> >        p.Color = Color.Red
> >        Try
> >            p.Width = 2
> >            g.DrawLine(p, -35, 65, 80, -45)
> >            g.DrawLine(p, 200, 200, 0, 0)
> >        Finally
> >            p.Dispose()
> >        End Try
> >        Return sampleBitmap
> >    End Function

> Andrew Morton wrote:
>> Marc wrote:
>>> The below snippet does not work...anyone know how to reference the
>>> procedure 'DrawCross()'?
>>
>> Every time you call DrawCross(), you're generating a new instance of
>> a bitmap. That will never be the same instance you assigned to the
>> BackgroundImage.
>>
>> The "is" operator is not a bitmap comparison operator. (Unless you
>> were to overload it.)
>>
>> How about making your own extended MyContextMenuStrip inherits from
>> ContextMenuStrip and has a String property you can set to change the
>> BackgroundImage? (My nomenclature may be wrong.)
>>

> Hi Andrew,
>
> Could you give me an example of how i would do that?
>
> Im sorry but im really a transport manager pretending to be a
> programmer so my knowledge is basic!!!

"Andrew Morton" <a**@in-press.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message
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> Marc wrote:
>> Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> Marc wrote:
>>>> The below snippet does not work...anyone know how to reference the
>>>> procedure 'DrawCross()'?
>>>
>>> Every time you call DrawCross(), you're generating a new instance of
>>> a bitmap. That will never be the same instance you assigned to the
>>> BackgroundImage.
>>>
>>> The "is" operator is not a bitmap comparison operator. (Unless you
>>> were to overload it.)
>>>
>>> How about making your own extended MyContextMenuStrip inherits from
>>> ContextMenuStrip and has a String property you can set to change the
>>> BackgroundImage? (My nomenclature may be wrong.)
>>>

>
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> Could you give me an example of how i would do that?
>>
>> Im sorry but im really a transport manager pretending to be a
>> programmer so my knowledge is basic!!!
>
> [Please bottom-post in this newsgroup.]
>
> You'll have to wait for someone who knows about ContextMenuStrip as it
> isn't in the VS2003/.NET1.1 I have. And anyway, I have to admit to only
> knowing the principle of this Inherits thing; I've never needed to use it,
> other than what VS sticks in the code for me.
>
> Andrew
>

> why do you have to bottom post???

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>
> jeff wrote:
>> why do you have to bottom post???
>
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