Should be simple enough but I can't see it.
You can find out the component that was right-clicked on to display a popup menu with:
PopupMenu1.PopupComponent
but how do you find out the popup menu that contains the TMenuItem that was in turn clicked on that menu?
To simplify the problem to an example:
I have a series of labels, each with a different caption, and I have a popup menu that is assigned to the PopupMenu property of each of the labels.
When someone right-clicks one of the labels and brings up the popup menu, and then clicks on MenuItem1, I want to code:
procedure TForm1.MenuItem1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
MsgBox (Format ('The label right-clicked has the caption %', [xxxx.Caption ])) ;
end ;
What should xxxx be?
Implemented Answer
Thanks to both respondents. What I ended up with was this:
procedure TForm1.MenuItem1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
AParentMenu : TMenu ;
AComponent : TComponent ;
ALabel : TLabel ;
begin
AParentMenu := TMenuItem (Sender).GetParentMenu ;
AComponent := TPopupMenu (AParentMenu).PopupComponent ;
ALabel := TLabel (AComponent) ;
MsgBox (Format ('The label right-clicked has the caption %', [ALabel.Caption ])) ;
end ;
which also interrogates which TMenuItem was involved and therefore gives me a fragment of code I can drop into other OnClick handlers with less modification.
I'm a little confused by your question but since you've ruled out everything else I can only imagine you are looking for TMenuItem.GetParentMenu
.