Two lines text of item in MenuItem

[st mnmn]

I added an item to MenuItem control, and I want its title/text to be written on two lines.
e.g.:

            MainMenu mm = new MainMenu();
            MenuItem mi = new MenuItem();
            mi.Text = "file";
            mi.MenuItems.Add("open"+Environment .NewLine +"file");
            mm.MenuItems.Add(mi);
            this.Menu = mm;

That should displays the item on two lines:
open
file

but, it doesn't work, and the item's text is displayed on one line:
openfile

Does anyone have an idea how can I do that?

Thanks.

[GaryTexmo]

Hmm you know, I'm not sure if you can. My best guess would have been throwing an Environment.NewLine in there as well. That said, when I do it I actually see the square characters for the "\r\n" instead of nothing like you do. I also tried the designer with the usual ctrl+enter or alt+enter to see if I could force one in there and no dice.

Now, interestingly enough, if you check the text of the menu item you created it still retains the newline character (do a console.writeline on it). This leads me to believe that the paint method for a menu item is doing something specific to make sure it doesn't have text that's more than one line. Maybe this is something Microsoft wants to enforce in their application look and feel? When I think about it, I don't think I've ever seen a menu selection that went over two lines like that.

That being said, since the menu item does retain the newline character in it's text, perhaps you can create a class inheriting from menu item and override the paint method to draw it in your own way? It might take a bit of work, but it's something that might be worth looking into. Play around with it and see what happens?

[st mnmn]

OK, It seems you're right. the menu item retains the new line character in it's text.
but, what should I write in the paint method?
Can you direct me?