I searched and read a little about this topic, but cound'nt found a working example. So I decided to try to create it. This is not ideal, but the basis for a start. I have not tried elements that have additional subelements, for example.
, "OnPaint". ToolStripProfessionalRenderer. . MyToolStripProfessionalRenderer Toolstrip.Renderer.
Public Class Form1
Public Sub New()
InitializeComponent()
MenuStrip1.Renderer = New MyToolStripProfessionalRenderer()
End Sub
End Class
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Imports System.Windows.Forms
Public Class MyToolStripProfessionalRenderer
Inherits ToolStripProfessionalRenderer
Protected iconwidth As Integer = 22 ' the width of image icons
Protected paddingIconToText As Integer = 3
Protected paddingTextToShortCut As Integer = 20
Protected paddingShortCutToBoarder As Integer = 20
Private Enum TextType
Text = 0
Shortcut = 1
End Enum
Protected Overrides Sub OnRenderItemText(e As System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItemTextRenderEventArgs)
' render only ToolStripMenuItems
If e.Item.IsOnDropDown And TypeOf e.Item Is ToolStripMenuItem Then
Dim MenuItem As ToolStripMenuItem = e.Item
Dim Name As String = MenuItem.Text
Dim Shortcut As String = MenuItem.ShortcutKeyDisplayString
'avoid double draw. The method is called twice for each item, check what should be drawn, Text or Shortcut?
Dim Mode As TextType
If e.Text = Name Then
Mode = TextType.Text
Else
Mode = TextType.Shortcut
End If
If Mode = TextType.Text Then
' this is our column for the menuitem text
Dim FirstColumn As Rectangle = New Rectangle(MenuItem.ContentRectangle.Left + iconwidth + paddingIconToText,
MenuItem.ContentRectangle.Top + 1,
MenuItem.Width - iconwidth - paddingIconToText,
MenuItem.Height)
' drawing the menu item
e.Graphics.DrawString(Name, MenuItem.Font, New SolidBrush(MenuItem.ForeColor), FirstColumn)
' this is the Shortcut to display, be sure to have set it manually
Else
' to align the text on the wanted position, we need to know the width for the shortcuts, this depends also on the other menu items
Dim CurStrip As ToolStrip = MenuItem.GetCurrentParent()
Dim fShortCutWidth As Single = 0
' lets find the other menuitems for this group
For Each item As Object In CurStrip.Items
' lets look for the ToolStripMenuItem only
If TypeOf item Is ToolStripMenuItem Then
Dim ChildItem As ToolStripMenuItem = item
Dim sCurShortcut As String = ChildItem.ShortcutKeyDisplayString
' how many pixels are needed to draw the current shortcut?
Dim size As SizeF = e.Graphics.MeasureString(sCurShortcut, ChildItem.Font)
If size.Width > fShortCutWidth Then
fShortCutWidth = size.Width ' save it for later
End If
End If
Next
' avoid to lose 1 pixel by casting to integer
Dim ShortCutWidth As Integer = Convert.ToInt32(fShortCutWidth) + 1
If fShortCutWidth > 0 Then
' this is our second column for the shortcut text
Dim SecondColumn As Rectangle = New Rectangle(MenuItem.Width - ShortCutWidth - paddingShortCutToBoarder,
MenuItem.ContentRectangle.Top + 1,
ShortCutWidth,
MenuItem.Height)
' drawing the shortcut
e.Graphics.DrawString(Shortcut, MenuItem.Font, New SolidBrush(MenuItem.ForeColor), SecondColumn)
End If
End If
Else ' there might be other items, use the default method
MyBase.OnRenderItemText(e)
End If
End Sub
Protected Overrides Sub Initialize(toolStrip As System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip)
MyBase.Initialize(toolStrip)
' custom autosize algorithm
' 1: Find all dropdownbuttons
' 2: Get all Menuitems within dropdown
' 3: find the largest string of the dropdownitems text
' 4: find the latgest string of the dropdownitems shortcuttext
' 5: set the width for all items = picture width + padding + longest_itemtext + padding + longest_shortcuttext + padding
For Each item As ToolStripItem In toolStrip.Items ' get all dropdownbuttons
If TypeOf item Is ToolStripDropDownButton Then
Dim btn As ToolStripDropDownButton = item
If btn.HasDropDownItems Then ' dropdownitems
Dim MaxSizeOfItemName As Single = 0
Dim MaxSizeOfShortCutName As Single = 0
Dim CurSizeOfItemName As Single = 0
Dim CurSizeOfShortCutName As Single = 0
For Each child As ToolStripItem In btn.DropDownItems ' menu items within dropdown menu
' find the largest strings of dropdownitems
If TypeOf child Is ToolStripMenuItem Then
Dim CurrentMenuItem As ToolStripMenuItem = child
CurSizeOfItemName = TextRenderer.MeasureText(CurrentMenuItem.Text, child.Font).Width
CurSizeOfShortCutName = TextRenderer.MeasureText(CurrentMenuItem.ShortcutKeyDisplayString, child.Font).Width
MaxSizeOfItemName = Math.Max(MaxSizeOfItemName, CurSizeOfItemName)
MaxSizeOfShortCutName = Math.Max(MaxSizeOfShortCutName, CurSizeOfShortCutName)
End If
Next
If MaxSizeOfItemName > 0 Then
Dim autowidth As Integer = iconwidth + paddingIconToText + Convert.ToInt32(MaxSizeOfItemName) + 1 + paddingTextToShortCut + Convert.ToInt32(MaxSizeOfShortCutName) + 1 + paddingShortCutToBoarder
' it not enough to set only the dropdownitems' width, also have to change the ToolStripDropDownMenu width
Dim menu As ToolStripDropDownMenu = btn.DropDownItems.Item(0).GetCurrentParent() ' maybe there is a better way to get the menuobject?!
menu.AutoSize = False
menu.Width = autowidth
For Each child As ToolStripItem In btn.DropDownItems
child.AutoSize = False
child.Width = autowidth
Next
End If ' MaxSizeOfItemName
' CAUTION: this works only for the first level of menuitems, if your dropdownmenu has another dropdownmenu, move the code above into a method and add recursion for each dropdownbutton with subitems
End If ' btn.HasDropDownItems
End If ' TypeOf item Is ToolStripDropDownButton
Next 'For Each item As ToolStripItem
End Sub
End Class