How to Set Background Color Of MainMenu???

[joshuaand]

Hi,

 

I have changed my form's background color, to a blue, and I have a mainmenu item on the form, but the menu still stays grey.

 

I am using the ownerpaint and DrawItem to draw a background color for each menu item, but the background of the menu still stays grey?

 

any ideas?

 

Thanks

Josh

[divil]

You won't be able to do this with native .NET methods. That colour is taken from the system colour settings.

[joshuaand]

is there any way to do it, API?

[divil]

Well, you can intercept WM_NCPAINT and take responsibility for drawing the nonclient parts of the form yourself. This includes the borders and titlebar as well as the menu.

 

I don't know what functions, if any, allow you to determine the region occupied by the menu bar though.