"Mark Rae" <ma**@markrae.co.uk> wrote in message
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Further to this, does anyone know of any way to make the standard VS.NET
Menu control look more attractive when running under one of the XP themes?
E.g.
1. Menubar and "classic" toolbar running on Windows Classic theme:
http://www.markrae.myby.co.uk/ClassicClassic.jpg
2. Menubar and "XP" toolbar running on Windows Classic theme:
http://www.markrae.myby.co.uk/ClassicXP.jpg
3. Menubar and "XP" toolbar running on Windows XP theme:
http://www.markrae.myby.co.uk/XPXP.jpg
With option 3, the menu backgrounds are clearly visible, which looks awful.
I had a similar problem with toolbars but was able to get round this by
setting the TransparentColor property of the toolbar's underlying ImageList
to the same as the toolbar itself i.e. Silver (192,192,192) - there seems to
be no way of doing this for menu controls.