Passing parameters to menu handler

[ourman]

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

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

and later I have:

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

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.

[hellswraith]

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.

[ourman]

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?

[Cander]

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


sender.Text

[ourman]

Thanks a lot Cander & hellswraith...

Learning more everyday...