Metro Context Menu strip colors

[rrirower]

I'm using a metro context menu strip. I'd like to change the forecolor for the text. The control seems to ignore any color value I use.

How do you change the forecolor so that it is not gray?

[Taiizor]

You can customize Metro components the way you want using StyleManager.
Customizable sample theme file is below.

https://github.com/Taiizor/ReaLTaiizor/blob/develop/src/ReaLTaiizor/Resources/Metro/Metro%20Theme.xml
https://github.com/Taiizor/ReaLTaiizor/blob/develop/src/ReaLTaiizor/Resources/Metro/Metro%20Theme.xml#L197

How to use this theme file is shown in the example below.

ReaLTaiizor/demo/ReaLTaiizor.UI/ReaLTaiizor.UI/Form19.cs

Line 55 in e34f1fd

metroStyleManager1.OpenTheme();

Or you can do it by typing the path to the theme file.
metroStyleManager1.CustomTheme = @"C:\Custom Theme.xml";

[rrirower]

Thanks. I'll look into that.

[rrirower]

I finally got around to testing this. I can now add a style manager to my form. However, the changes that I made to the theme file do not seem to be reflected in the form, or, the context menu.

For example, I wrote the following to use my theme in the Load of the form:

metroStyleManager.CustomTheme = @"C:\Users\XXXXX\MetroThemeFile.xml";

I set the style manager field for the Metro Context menu strip to the style manager I dragged onto the form. I changed the menu fore color to

<ForeColor>#000000</ForeColor>

The text did not change.

What am I missing?

[rrirower]

I've made some progress in resolving this. Most of my problems are due to a lack of understanding of what each item in the theme file affects. By trial and error, I was able to learn what values affected the colors I wanted to change. Additionally, I found that I had to change the 'RenderMode' for the context menu to "System". I don't know if this is correct, but, it provides what I need.

You can mark this as resolved.