MenuItem Font

[Wal Turner]

My general question is:
How does one determine the font of a System.Windows.Form.MenuItem?

I have a custom MenuItem where I have set OwnerDraw = true, and hence the
implementations of DrawItem and MeasureItem.

With a menuitem, there is nothing like menuItem.Font to get the current
Font. This is causing a problem when coding MeasureItem as I don't know how
wide the menu item is supposed to be:

e.ItemWidth = (int)e.Graphics.MeasureString(menu.Text,
<FONT_ARG_HERE).Width;

When coding DrawItem its OK because we have a DrawItemEventArgs which has a
Font as a property.

Regards

Wal

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

SystemInformation.MenuFont is the one used globally. For owner-draw you can
use whatever you like.

Windows Forms Tips and Tricks has an article on using different fonts on
owner-drawn menus.

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"Wal Turner" <vo****@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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My general question is:
How does one determine the font of a System.Windows.Form.MenuItem?

I have a custom MenuItem where I have set OwnerDraw = true, and hence the
implementations of DrawItem and MeasureItem.

With a menuitem, there is nothing like menuItem.Font to get the current
Font. This is causing a problem when coding MeasureItem as I don't know how wide the menu item is supposed to be:

e.ItemWidth = (int)e.Graphics.MeasureString(menu.Text,
<FONT_ARG_HERE).Width;

When coding DrawItem its OK because we have a DrawItemEventArgs which has a Font as a property.

Regards

Wal

[Wal Turner]

John, thanks very much, didn't know that was there. I was wondering if you
could help point me in the direction of finding out more about USER objects
(as per the column in Task Manager) I'm going to start a new project now
and experiment what happens when you create certain components and how this
contributes to the USER object count - also the effect Show( ) will have on
USER objects when making the form visible. Anything I find out will be
empirical, so I was wondering if you know of any formal articles on this
matter. I have trolled through many pages but havent come across anything
helpful

Regards

Wal
"Wal Turner" <vo****@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:er**************@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...

My general question is:
How does one determine the font of a System.Windows.Form.MenuItem?

I have a custom MenuItem where I have set OwnerDraw = true, and hence the
implementations of DrawItem and MeasureItem.

With a menuitem, there is nothing like menuItem.Font to get the current
Font. This is causing a problem when coding MeasureItem as I don't know how wide the menu item is supposed to be:

e.ItemWidth = (int)e.Graphics.MeasureString(menu.Text,
<FONT_ARG_HERE).Width;

When coding DrawItem its OK because we have a DrawItemEventArgs which has a Font as a property.

Regards

Wal

[Wal Turner]

John, thanks very much, didn't know that was there. I was wondering if you
could help point me in the direction of finding out more about USER objects
(as per the column in Task Manager) I'm going to start a new project now
and experiment what happens when you create certain components and how this
contributes to the USER object count - also the effect Show( ) will have on
USER objects when making the form visible. Anything I find out will be
empirical, so I was wondering if you know of any formal articles on this
matter. I have trolled through many pages but havent come across anything
helpful

Regards

Wal
"Wal Turner" <vo****@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:er**************@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...

My general question is:
How does one determine the font of a System.Windows.Form.MenuItem?

I have a custom MenuItem where I have set OwnerDraw = true, and hence the
implementations of DrawItem and MeasureItem.

With a menuitem, there is nothing like menuItem.Font to get the current
Font. This is causing a problem when coding MeasureItem as I don't know how wide the menu item is supposed to be:

e.ItemWidth = (int)e.Graphics.MeasureString(menu.Text,
<FONT_ARG_HERE).Width;

When coding DrawItem its OK because we have a DrawItemEventArgs which has a Font as a property.

Regards

Wal