Menus Control for Windows Forms Design menus with animation effects, flexible orientation, custom backgrounds, and image menus Menus Background Designing in C#.NET
Kettic Menu Component for Windows Forms allows the C# UI interface designers to customize the background of menus. It is capable of editing the background colors and adding images to background. To change the colors of background of menus, we shall use the Visual Style Builder, and to add images to background of menus, we shall apply the properties, BackgroundImage and BackgroundImageLayout for KetticMenu. Customize Menu Background in C#.NET
The users of the control are able to customize the background gradient colors of menus for their applications. To accomplish this background editing, we shall use the Visual Style Builder of the Kettic UI WinForms controls and the property, FillPrimitive under KetticDropDownMenuElement. Place Image to Menu Background in C#.NET
To place an image as background to menus, we shall use the properties, KetticMenu BackgroundImage and BackgroundImageLayout, which are able to specify an image to be tiled, zoomed, centered, or stretched according to the portion of the menu rather than covered by menu items.
The following are the steps that demonstrate how to place an image to the background of KetticMenu.
- Create a new project in .NET or open your existing project
- Drag and drop a standard Windows Panel control to your form
- Assign the BackgroundImage property to the image for the menu you are designing
- Set KetticMenuBackColor property to Transparent
- Run your application, the image should be the background of the menus.
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