Vista - MenuItem's transparent background

Hi all !

i would like to make my menu item's background transparent, just the
background not the content and would like to clear the shadow under the menu
item.

Any idea ?

Thx 4 help !
--
Phil

Hi Phil,

You will have to create a new template for MenuItem to change these
behaviors. As far as I know, theme style files have not been made available,
so it may be a challenge to recreate all the functionality of this control.

-Shalini

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"Phil" wrote:

> Hi all !
>
> i would like to make my menu item's background transparent, just the
> background not the content and would like to clear the shadow under the menu
> item.
>
> Any idea ?
>
> Thx 4 help !
> --
> Phil

Thanks for your help Shalini,

i tried to make a new template for the menuItem with the Expression
Designer(March CTP).
When i make a "Copy of the template", it generates a lot of XAML code (too
much i thought!). When i analyse it i see that the main container is a PopUp
control. So i make my own control composed by a toggleButton and a Popup
control.


<ToggleButton Style="{DynamicResource bt}" x:Name="bt1" Content="{Binding
ElementName=ElementRoot,Path=Titre}" Cursor="Hand"/>
<Popup IsOpen="{Binding ElementName=bt1,Path=IsChecked}"
PlacementTarget="{Binding ElementName=bt1}"
AllowsTransparency="True"
Width="{Binding ElementName=bt1,Path=ActualWidth}" x:Name="popUp" >

<Border BorderBrush="Gray" BorderThickness="1">
<StackPanel Background="#E0F0F0F0">
<Label Style="{DynamicResource clsMenu}">Menu 1</Label>
<Label Style="{DynamicResource clsMenu}">Menu 2</Label>
<Label Style="{DynamicResource clsMenu}">Menu 3</Label>
<Label Style="{DynamicResource clsMenu}">Menu 4</Label>
</StackPanel>
</Border>
</Popup>

Now i have an other pb :
How could i make Popup fade-in / fade-out animation (Opacity
DoubleAnimation) when i Open/ Close this one ?

Cheers ,

Phil


"Shalini Aggarwal [MSFT]" wrote:

> Hi Phil,
>
> You will have to create a new template for MenuItem to change these
> behaviors. As far as I know, theme style files have not been made available,
> so it may be a challenge to recreate all the functionality of this control.
>
> -Shalini
>
> ----------
> "Phil" wrote:
>
> > Hi all !
> >
> > i would like to make my menu item's background transparent, just the
> > background not the content and would like to clear the shadow under the menu
> > item.
> >
> > Any idea ?
> >
> > Thx 4 help !
> > --
> > Phil