winforms toolstripmenuitem how to stop inverting color?

Asked Mar 04 '15 at 21:10

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I set the background and foreground colors like this:

    this.loadToolStripMenuItem.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.DarkBlue;
    this.loadToolStripMenuItem.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Yellow;
    this.loadToolStripMenuItem.Name = "loadToolStripMenuItem";
    this.loadToolStripMenuItem.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(152, 22);
    this.loadToolStripMenuItem.Text = "Load";
    this.loadToolStripMenuItem.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.loadDatabase_Click);

However, at run time when the ToolStripMenuItem is selected the color scheme changes such that the background is a white/grey color. Mixed with yellow this is a bad appearance.

How does one control the background and foreground color while the item is being selected with the mouse? Ideally, I would like to keep DarkBlue and Yellow and have no change in appearance when the mouse is selecting the item.

asked Mar 04 '15 at 21:10

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Create your own renderer so you can change [its color table](http://stackoverflow.com/a/9260827/17034). – Hans Passant Mar 05 '15 at 09:54
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36767478/color-change-for-menuitem/36768361#36768361 – Yogi Apr 21 '16 at 11:49

winforms toolstripmenuitem how to stop inverting color?

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