Changing the Color of all the ToolStripMenuItem on a Windows form

Question

_{Saturday, December 24, 2011 12:07 AM}

How do you change Color of all the ToolStripMenuItem on a Windows form. It seems as though you can't.

Here is the code that fails

        For Each a In Me.ToolStripItems Then
            a.BackColor = System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.FromOle(InterfaceColor)
            a.ForeColor = System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.FromOle(LabelColor)
        Next

 

Marc Menzel

All replies (4)

_{Saturday, December 24, 2011 11:57 AM ✅Answered}

 

Hi Marc..

Welcome to MSDN Forums..

Did you follow Paul's code? I hope Paul code is enough for you..

I have found some usefull information for you..
Check this..

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/ar/winforms/thread/2492c798-63ed-44f2-a9b7-39f197893210

http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/165100/How-to-change-background-color-of-menustrip-in-win

By
A Pathfinder..
JoSwa

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_{Saturday, December 24, 2011 12:45 PM ✅Answered}

My best answer:

For Each Control As Control In Me.Controls
    If Control.GetType.ToString = "System.Windows.Forms.MenuStrip" Then
        Dim MenuStrip As New MenuStrip
        MenuStrip = CType(Control, MenuStrip)
        For Each ToolStripMenuItem As ToolStripMenuItem In MenuStrip.Items
            ToolStripMenuItem.BackColor = Color.Red
            ToolStripMenuItem.ForeColor = Color.Blue
            For Each DropDownItem As ToolStripDropDownItem In ToolStripMenuItem.DropDownItems
                DropDownItem.BackColor = Color.Red
                DropDownItem.ForeColor = Color.Blue
            Next
        Next
    End If
Next

If you want something you've never had, you need to do something you've never done.

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_{Saturday, December 24, 2011 12:19 AM}

try this, just switch it up to what you need it to be....

 

For Each ToolStripMenuItem As ToolStripMenuItem In MenuStrip1.Items
        ToolStripMenuItem.BackColor = Color.Red
        ToolStripMenuItem.ForeColor = Color.Yellow
Next

        For Each a As ToolStripMenuItem In MenuStrip1.Items
            a.BackColor = System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.FromOle(InterfaceColor)
            a.ForeColor = System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.FromOle(LabelColor)
        Next

 

If you want something you've never had, you need to do something you've never done.

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_{Wednesday, December 28, 2011 6:30 AM}

Hi Marc,

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