- Menus and Toolbars for WinForms Overview
- Key Features
- Overview
- Design-Time Support
- Menus and Toolbars Overview
- DockingTab Overview
- NavBar Overview
- OutBar Overview
- TopicBar Overview
- RadialMenu Overview
- Menus and Toolbars for WinForms Samples
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Menus and Toolbars for WinForms Task-Based Help
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Menu Tasks
- Adding a Menu Item to MainMenu
- Adding an Icon to a Menu Item
- Adding a Menu Item Before the Current Menu Item
- Adding a Menu Item After the Current Menu Item
- Adding a Standard Menu Item from the Link to Command Designer
- Adding a Submenu
- Adding Multiple SubMenus
- Applying ShortCut Keys to Menus
- Localizing the Text for the Shortcut Key
- Creating a Side Caption for a Command Menu
- Creating a Separate Click Event for a Command Object
- Creating a Window List for an MDI Form
- Deleting Menu Items
- Displaying the Delimiter in Drop-Down Menus
- Displaying ToolTips for Menus and Toolbars
- Hiding Rarely Used Menu Items
- Merging Menu Items
- Modifying the Appearance of the Menus
- Setting the Width of the Image/Checkmarks Bar
- Showing a Dialog Form when a Message Filter is not Installed
- Wrapping Items at the End of the Menu
- ToolBar Tasks
- Context Menu Tasks
- DockingTab Tasks
- NavBar Tasks
- OutBar Tasks
- TopicBar Tasks
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Menu Tasks
Creating a Side Caption for a Command Menu
To use the SideCaption property at design time to display a side caption along the commands, complete the following steps:
Select a C1CommandMenu from the Properties drop-down list.
Locate and expand the C1CommandMenu.SideCaption node.
Select the BarGradientBegin property and select Dodger Blue from its Web tab.
Select the BarGradientEnd property and select PowderBlue from its Web tab.
Set Text property to Physics 101.
The side caption appears to the left side of the menu items. The graphic illustrates the appearance of the side caption:
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Note: The text displayed in the side caption represents the name of the class that participated in the field trips.