Passing parameters to menu handler

I had to use menus on a form and corresponding event handlers on the click of menu items like this:

Code:

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miMaintanence.MenuItems.Add(New MenuItem(strMenuCaption, New EventHandler(AddressOf Me.OpenMaintanenceForm)))

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and later I have:

Code:

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Private Sub OpenMaintanenceForm(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
      ' ...some code here
End Sub

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I will like to pass a parameter to the Sub OpenMaintanenceForm that's is executed after clicking on the Menu Item.

On this case I will like to pass a string parameter (strFrormCaption) to set the Caption of the Form to be opened. How should I go to do this?
Thanks.

I would just make a class (form) variable. Set it to what you want, then just access it inside the event code.

The other way to do it would get really indepth, and I am not fully sure how to go about it. You would need to inherit the menu class into a new class. Then override the event arguements. And I think you would even have to get into some delegates and stuff.... Much easier the first way.

Thanks for your answer. I'll try to explain myself better:

The menus are build at runtime using data from a database (one menu for each table on the database). I don't know before hands how many tables (menus) will be and this can be a number from 1 to 20 or +

What I'm tring to to do is to have the MenuItem caption (strMenuCaption on code) sent to the Sub OpenMaintanenceForm
and this way I can know which menu was clicked and as a consecuence which table I need to display on the form that opens this Sub.

I'm thinking on using the (e As System.EventArgs) as it should contain the Menu Item caption..

What do you think?

Thats what sender is for. sender is the object calling the event. So you can access its properties/methods


sender.Text

Thanks a lot Cander & hellswraith...

Learning more everyday...