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Questions tagged [menustrip]

This tag can be used in questions involving usage of MenuStrip class from Windows Forms (a GUI class library in the Microsoft .NET Framework).

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Use escape key to lose focus on ToolStripMainMenu items?

I have a MenuStrip in one of my forms so that the user has a menu bar they can choose various things from. For convenience, some also have key shortcuts mapped to them. I've also achieved a custom look for all the items and their submenus by…
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Change tool tip timeout on menustrip in winforms?

How to extend tool tip timeout when hovering on menu items in a menustrip (in winforms)? I set it like this: toolStripMenuItem1.ToolTipText = "foo";
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MenuStrip in Visual Basic .NET

Can someone please explain to me why the hell? When I try to set a MenuStrip Item calling it by name it gives me an exception? An unhandled exception of type 'System.NullReferenceException' occurred in Sample.exe Additional information: Object…
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C# - Dynamically creating MenuStrip

I'm creating a web browser with tabs. To enter the URL, I'm trying to set a MenuStrip with its ToolStripMenuItem as a Textbox. I'm creating all the controls dynamically and I have 2 questions. 1). How can I insert a Textbox as the…
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Override MenuStrip.Items.Add()?

I have create a database tables which holds all the menu with a self join to make it like Level0 -> Level1 -> Level2 .....etc. Populating these records in a MenuStrip required a huge amount of code so i would like to encapsulate all this code on…
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C# / WinForms / Make Main form's menu accessible from child form (shortcut keys)

I've got a form with a menu strip that has keyboard shortcut's. Keyboard works as expected. Then I add another form that is owned by the main form (child.Owner = main). When this form has focus I can't access the menu on the main form (using the…
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C#, menustrip specific menu open when user have logged in

in my menuStrip i have multiple forms, So in 1 of them i want to be access only when use is pass from a login form i have create.. Lets say menustrip, menu is on form1, and the login form is Form2, So how i am gonna comebine this to so menustrip…
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can't get value of trackbar on menu strip

I've added a trackbar to menu strip manually because vs 2008 doesn't allow me to do. However, i can't get the value of trackbar. Form1.cs: [ToolStripItemDesignerAvailability(ToolStripItemDesignerAvailability.MenuStrip | …
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How do I keep .NET 4.6.2 MenuStrip visible above application workspace (when programming in C#)

I have inherited some C# source code written in Visual Studio 2010 targeting the .NET 2.0 framework. It comprises a simple Windows Forms application with a single form as its user interface. The form contains a number of menu items, one of which…
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menustrip items disappeared but still avaliable on my designer.cs

private void InitializeComponent() { this.components = new System.ComponentModel.Container(); this.timer1 = new System.Windows.Forms.Timer(this.components); this.richTextBox1 = new System.Windows.Forms.RichTextBox(); …
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Disabling a ToolStripMenuItem vs. disabling a MenuStrip.Item

When a user logs into my application, there are some menu items that I don't want every user to see. So I would like to either disable or make invisible the menu item. For example fileToolStripMenuItem is the first item in my menuStrip, when I…
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C# Windows Forms ToolStrip and MenuStrip memory leak

I'm creating a Windows Forms app in C# (.NET 4.7.2), I just added a ToolStrip and a MenuStrip. If I run the application the memory usage jumps to 600mb, too much for a Windows Forms application with only a ToolStrip and a MenuStrip, if I delete them…
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Trying to color a MenuStrip, a white border appears on the left side

I'm creating a Form and I want the menu bar to have different colors. There are many posts on this, I've managed to alter all the colors, except for a white block/line down the left hand side of the menu. I'm using .Net Core 3.1, Windows Forms…
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Remove border from ToolStripMenuItem

I am customizing my MenuStrip to make it look better. I've gone really far from default one but there is 1 thing left which I could not change. My MenuStrip looks like this right now. As you can see in the image there is a grey border around my…
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Winforms MenuStrip - How to change white line on left edge of dropdown items?

How do I change the color of this white line on a MenuStrip? I can't figure out what property to use. So far I'm using this code to style all the other parts: internal static class Clr { public static Color White = Color.FromArgb(255, 255,…
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