Is it possible to add a picture on the top of ContextMenuStrip

[.: hue :.]

Hi,

Is it possible to add a picture above the items in a ContextMenuStrip? Or a panel on which there could be some fancy stuff like an animation?

Many thanks!
Martin

[BigEd781]

Yup, you can always write the code to do it. I have never tried to add images to a context menu strip, so maybe there is an easier way, but you can always just roll your own control by drawing it yourself and handling the mouse input.

[.: hue :.]

Hi, thanks for your advice. My idea is to use the standard menu strip control which has/will have different look in various Windows versions and add - preferably - a control-container on the top of it to display a picture / animation / a text hint etc. In the first instance I probably could draw a picture, but would be better to create something generic, and as I'm quite junior to C#/.NET hoped someone could point me to a piece of code to give me a hint.

[BigEd781]

All it takes is a little knowledge. Learn how to draw using the Graphics class, override OnPaint, etc. Pretty basic concepts, there are already many tutorials out there.

[.: hue :.]

Yup, but I haven't found anything about ContextMenuStrip hosting another control and this was actually my question - if anyone had done it before and could share a few lines of code. In my case drawing a picture is just a quick win for the time being.