How to add things to a menustrip programatically?

c# winforms menustrip
Sergio Tapia picture Sergio Tapia · Oct 22, 2009 · Viewed 16.5k times · Source

I want to add whatever is written in a textbox to a menustrip. In the File > Recent Searches thing I have.

How can I do programatically? And can I assign an event handler dynamically so that when a user clicks on X item in that subfolder, the text is copied BACK to the textbox?

EDIT: How can I programatically call on the folder Busquedas Recientes (in pic)

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Answer

Austin Salonen picture Austin Salonen · Oct 22, 2009

You can do this by taking advantage of the object sender parameter in the event handler. Most of this is off the top of my head so I'm only guessing that it will compile but it should get you started.

void AddMenuItem(string text, string action)
{
   ToolStripMenuItem item = new ToolStripMenuItem();
   item.Text = text;
   item.Click += new EventHandler(item_Click);
   item.Tag = action;

   //first option, inserts at the top
   //historyMenu.Items.Add(item);

   //second option, should insert at the end
   historyMenuItem.DropDownItems.Insert(historyMenuItem.DropDownItems.Count, item);
}

private void someHistoryMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   ToolStripMenuItem menuItem = sender as ToolStripMenuItem;

   string args = menuItem.Tag.ToString();

   YourSpecialAction(args);
}

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