Graphical Menu

[Roey]

How would I go about designing a graphical menu for my application, using a picture instead of the normal dropdown menu's.

 

For example, would I design a picture in something loke Photoshop and then set the background of the form to that picture, or is there a better way !!!

 

Thanks

[mutant]

Im not excatly sure what are you need of, but see if this thread helps:

http://www.xtremedotnettalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=69043

[Roey]

I wanted to develop a background that looked like a roadmap / flowchart that users could click on to load a particular windows form. The only way that I can think of doing this is to draw a picture in a graphics package and then set that image to the background of my windows form. I could then place buttons over the top of the image.

 

I was just wondering how everyone else was accomplishing this sort of design.

[mutant]

Ah, when I saw you talking about images on menus I thought about the link i mentioned.

So you want to select some spots on the image and open a new form based on which one was selected, but without buttons? In that case, you could add a collection of Rectangle object to your code. Then, with every MouseDown event occurence, go through every Rectangle and use its Contains method to see if the current mouse coordinates are in the rectangle.

[Roey]

Thanks mutant, although I was more interested in how people would go about designing the actual image itself. Photoshop, .Net GDI+ ..... as I have never done graphics design at all and wanted to make sure I was going to learn the best method for image work.

[mutant]

Ah, :)

I would guess that most professional 2D graphics designers use Photoshop. Its the most popular program for that. There are others like PaintShop Pro or Macromedia Fireworks, but they are not as widely used but from what I heard still good.