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#Devexpress menustrip skin

Place the DefaultLookAndFeel component on the Form and use its smart-tag menu, or specify a required skin in code. Open the Project Settings Page and choose the required WinForms theme. To review available Themes/Skins, open any demo application. With DevExpress, you get a variety of appearances and a comprehensive control library that guarantees visual consistency throughout your entire application. A major reason why we implemented all these controls is to support our themes. The DevExpress WinForms Subscription includes counterparts to many basic controls: buttons, check boxes, Forms, message boxes, dialogs, and others.

#Devexpress menustrip how to

The BarLargeButtonItem class represents an item type that can be used to create large button links within toolbars and menus.This topic explains how to apply DevExpress Themes/Skins to your application, how to allow users to switch between themes at runtime, how to customize existing skins or create your own, and much more. You can assign a large image to this item.The extra functionality provided by large button items is the following: This class is derived from the BarButtonItem and thus inherits all its functionality. Use the BarItem.LargeGlyph or BarItem.LargeImageIndex property for this purpose. If such an image is assigned, it is displayed within associated links located on toolbars. (Small images are assigned via the BarItem.Glyph or BarItem.ImageIndex property.) If an associated link is located in a sub-menu, it uses the small image. You can specify custom images for the disabled and hot-tracked states of associated links.

Please refer to the BarItem.LargeGlyphDisabled, BarItem.LargeImageIndexDisabled, BarLargeButtonItem.LargeGlyphHot and BarLargeButtonItem.LargeImageIndexHot properties description for details.

You can specify the position of a caption string relative to the specified large image.

Use the BarLargeButtonItem.CaptionAlignment property for this purpose.

You can control the visibility of the caption string within links using the BarLargeButtonItem.ShowCaptionOnBar property.

Different images are displayed within different links related to the same item.How to: Insert a MenuStrip into an MDI Drop-Down Menu (Windows Forms) The image below displays an example of using large button items to create links within a toolbar and a sub-menu. In some applications, the kind of a multiple-document interface (MDI) child window can be different from the MDI parent window. For example, the MDI parent might be a spreadsheet, and the MDI child might be a chart.

#Devexpress menustrip update

In that case, you want to update the contents of the MDI parent's menu with the contents of the MDI child's menu as MDI child windows of different kinds are activated. The following procedure uses the xref.IsMdiContainer%2A, xref.AllowMerge%2A, xref:, and xref.MergeIndex%2A properties to insert a group of menu items from the MDI child menu into the drop-down part of the MDI parent menu. Closing the MDI child window removes the inserted menu items from the MDI parent. To insert a MenuStrip into an MDI drop-down menuĬreate a form and set its xref.IsMdiContainer%2A property to true.Īdd a xref: to Form1 and set the xref.AllowMerge%2A property of the xref: to true.Īdd a top-level menu item to the Form1xref: and set its xref.Text%2A property to &File.Īdd three submenu items to the &File menu item and set their xref.Text%2A properties to &Open, &Import from, and E&xit.Īdd two submenu items to the &Import from submenu item and set their xref.Text%2A properties to &Word and &Excel.Īdd a form to the project, add a xref: to the form, and set the xref.AllowMerge%2A property of the Form2xref: to true.Īdd a top-level menu item to the Form2xref: and set its xref.Text%2A property to &File.Īdd submenu items to the &File menu of Form2 in the following order: a xref:, &Save, Save and &Close, and another xref. Set the xref: and xref.MergeIndex%2A properties of the Form2 menu items as shown in the following table. Form2 menu itemĬreate an event handler for the xref.Click event of the &Openxref.