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SetonSoftware - 28 May 2008 21:02 GMT

I'm using VB.NET 2005 and we need menu items that have both the
Checked property set to True and an Image as well. Something like
this:

oMenuItem = mnuFiles.DropDownItems.Add(strText,
imgList.Images("MyImage"), AddressOf File_Click)
oMenuItem.Checked = True

I'd like both to display adjacent to one another. It seems that the
Image property will sit on top of the check mark. Is there any way to
have both? The ony way we could think of was to create an image that
combined the check mark and our image but the display is way too
small. Any other ideas?

Thanks

Carl

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Marcin Dzióbek - 29 May 2008 11:09 GMT

Hi Carl:

> I'm using VB.NET 2005 and we need menu items that have both the
> Checked property set to True and an Image as well. Something like
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> combined the check mark and our image but the display is way too
> small. Any other ideas?

If mnuFiles is ToolStripMenuItem, You may use ShowCheckMargin and ShowImageMargin properties like here:
'**************************************************************************************
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim mnuFiles As New ToolStripMenuItem("Files...")
Dim oMenuItem As ToolStripMenuItem
oMenuItem = mnuFiles.DropDownItems.Add("BeepFile", New Bitmap("c:\tmp\x.bmp"), AddressOf File_Click)
oMenuItem.Checked = True
CType(oMenuItem.Owner, ToolStripDropDownMenu).ShowCheckMargin = True
CType(oMenuItem.Owner, ToolStripDropDownMenu).ShowImageMargin = True
Me.ContextMenuStrip = New ContextMenuStrip
Me.ContextMenuStrip.Items.Add(mnuFiles)
End Sub
Private Sub File_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
Beep()
End Sub
'**************************************************************************************
If not, try search VS2005's help for "How to: Enable Check Margins and Image Margins in ContextMenuStrip Controls"

--
Marcin

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