owner drawn contextmenu

[EvilProject]

Hi , Im working on an owner drawn context menu.
I want to replace the regular submenu arrow with my own arrow,I went threw all the properties and overridable methods of menuitem and couldn't find a way to do that.Is it imposiable to make that arrow disapear so i could replace it ?

thanks in advance.

[debasisdas]

you might need to use some third party control for the purpose.

[Killer42]

Don't forget, through various Windows API calls there are numerous ways in which you can change the look of menu items, even placing pictures in the menu and so on. It's difficult to believe there isn't some way to achieve what you want through a similar mechanism. As well as "owner drawn" I seem to recall the term "subclassing" being used in connection with this. Perhaps some searching on this will help

On the other hand, changing such a fundamental part of the Windows interface might be a really bad idea.

[Killer42]

I did a search on Google for "vb subclass menu". As always, of course, there were far too many results to even think about. But here were a couple that I thought sounded relevant, at first glance...

• Introduction - Subclassing - Developer Fusion - Visual Basic, C# ...
• free vb subclass menu download

[EvilProject]

first thing , thanks everybody for answering.

I did a search on Google for "vb subclass menu". As always, of course, there were far too many results to even think about. But here were a couple that I thought sounded relevant, at first glance...

• Introduction - Subclassing - Developer Fusion - Visual Basic, C# ...
• free vb subclass menu download

I Tried to hook the menu WndProc as you said but for some reson the WndProc i planted never gets called(The Context Menu is displayed Normally as if no alternative wndproc was set)

This is the code I wrote:

   Const GWL_WNDPROC As Int32 = (-4)
   Protected Overrides Function CreateMenuHandle() As System.IntPtr
        Dim tmp As IntPtr = MyBase.CreateMenuHandle()
        SetWndProc(tmp)
        Return tmp
    End Function
    Protected Sub SetWndProc(ByVal hwnd As IntPtr)
        m_ProcOld = SetWindowLong(hwnd, GWL_WNDPROC, Marshal.GetFunctionPointerForDelegate(New WindowProcCallback(AddressOf WNDProc)))
        m_Hwnd = hwnd
    End Sub
    Protected Function WNDProc(ByVal hWnd As IntPtr, ByVal iMsg As UInt32, ByVal wParam As UInt32, ByVal lParam As UInt32) As Int32
        Const WM_DRAWITEM As Int32 = &H2B
        Const WM_DESTROY As Int32 = &H2
        MsgBox("WndProc Called")
        If (iMsg = WM_DRAWITEM) Then Return 0 
        If (iMsg = WM_DESTROY) Then
            SetWindowLong(m_Hwnd, GWL_WNDPROC, m_ProcOld)
        End If
        Return CallWindowProc(m_ProcOld, hWnd, iMsg, wParam, lParam)
    End Function

[daniel aristidou]

i used to have an application that alowed you to edit your contextmenus.........i wish i could remember the name....
ill get back to you here if i find it or remember it.