Background color of a XPToolBar item

[Oleg Ogurok]

Hi there,

Is there a way to set background color on a particular item inside a XPToolBar?
I have a button that I want to look different from the rest.

Thanks,
-Oleg.

[Murugan]

Hi Oleg,

This could be achieved by handling the DrawToolbarItem event of the BarItem. Using this, we could draw background, image and String etc.

[Code]
this.barItem1.DrawToolbarItem += new DrawToolbarItemEventHandler (barItem1_DrawToolbarItem);

void barItem1_DrawToolbarItem(object sender, DrawToolbarItemEventArgs drawItemInfo)
{
Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.XPMenus.BarItem bi = (Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.XPMenus.BarItem)sender;
drawItemInfo.Graphics.FillRectangle(Brushes.Red, drawItemInfo.Bounds);
drawItemInfo.Graphics.DrawImage(bi.ImageList.Images[bi.ImageIndex],new Rectangle( drawItemInfo.Bounds.Location , new Size( drawItemInfo.Bounds.Size.Width , drawItemInfo.Bounds.Size.Height - 15 ) ) );
drawItemInfo.Graphics.DrawString(bi.Text , new Font("verdana", 7), new SolidBrush(Color.Green ), new PointF(drawItemInfo.Bounds.X, drawItemInfo.Bounds.Y + 22));
}

[Sample]
http://websamples.syncfusion.com/samples/Tools.Windows/F61266/Main.htm

Please refer to the sample and let me know if it helps you.

Thank you for your interest in Syncfusion products.

Regards,
Murugan P.S

[Oleg Ogurok]

Thanks for your solution. It works. However, the hover effect is lost, e.g. when I position mouse pointer over the button, it doesn't get highlighted like the rest of the buttons.

Is there a way to preserve this effect?

-Oleg.

[JayaLakshmi]

Hi Oleg,

Thanks for the update.

Just call a method DrawBackground()inside barItem1_DrawToolbarItem event handler to see the effect you want.

The code snippet is as follows :

drawItemInfo.DrawBackground();

Kindly let me know if this helps.

Regards,
Jaya

[Oleg Ogurok]

Worked like a charm. Thank you very much.