[RESOLVED] Add search to contextmenu

[Beast777]

I have added a contextmenu to my form and added the cut, paste, copy and now I want to add Search but what I would like is the standard textbox with the word search beside it, rather than have popup with search functions. I have figured out how to do the search on the bindingsource. I know how to just add a textbox on the context menu but I cannot see how to put any text beside it. Does everyone just use a popup?

[jmcilhinney]

There is no way to do that because there is no ToolStripItem with that functionality. Each item on the ContextMenuStrip is a ToolStripItem. A ToolStripTextBox is derived from ToolStripItem and ToolStripMenuItem is also derived from ToolStripItem. Each item on the menu can be one or the other but not both. You could either use two different items (see screen shot) and simply not handle the Click event of the label, or else you can derive your own class from ToolStripItem that provides the functionality you want.

[Beast777]

Thanks, yes, that is what I am doing now. I was just hoping that I could do it all on one line.

[jmcilhinney]

I was just hoping that I could do it all on one line.

and you can, as I said, by creating your own class. You can't expect the Framework to provide everything you want, but it does provide the means to create anything you want. If you want one ToolStripItem that has a text label and a text box then create one.