Adding label to menustrip

Question

Is it possible to add a lable/toostriplabel to a menustrip in a c# winform? I can't find an option to add it dierctly.

I want to add something that describes the status of a program, but I don't want to use a status bar for space.

Veii

You should be able to add a System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripLabel. I think it's not shown at design time because the MenuStrip isn't meant to have labels, it's meant to have MenuItems... normally when you want labels you use a regular ToolStrip. – Borneo

You can copy and paste a ToolStripLabel in the designer or add it in code. But Microsoft thinks you shouldn't. Because menus aren't supposed to have labels. – Borneo

Answer 1

Simply ToolStripLabel is just a ToolStripItem and MenuStrip.Items is a collection of ToolStripItem so you can just add a ToolStripLabel to MenuStrip normally like this:

menuStrip1.Items.Add(new ToolStripLabel("Status"));

To control the distance between the ToolStripLabel and the Left-side ToolStripItem, you can set the Margin property of your ToolStripLabel, like this:

toolStripLabel1.Margin = new Padding(50,3,3,3);

Halibut

Thanks! this is working. But I think it's easier to copy and paste it as Trevor suggested – Veii

@Veii I misunderstood your question, if you mean Drag-n-drop or add ToolStripLabel at design time (which is a better description than directly), I think copying-n-pasting looks like the easiest solution. However I don't even understand what Trevor said, it's not really clear although I understand how to do the Copy-n-paste, first we have to drag-n-drop some ToolStrip, add some ToolStripLabel to that ToolStrip by the designer and then just Copy and Paste. – Halibut