MenuItem.DefaultItem -> cant set to flase once set to true???

[MrPolite]

I have a menu item which has a few sub-menu items. I've set one of the sub menu item's DefaultItem to true. I tried setting it to false at run time, but it still looks bold... why is it like this?

if you dont understand, I have something like this

File
----New
---------Blank (.DefaultItem = true)
---------From Tempalate
---------Custom

once the user clicks on any item in the New menu, I try to set the DefaultItem property of all menu items to false, and set the DefaultItem property of the clicked menu to true. But for some it's not making any changes
why is this happening?

[MrPolite]

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[Edneeis]

Instead of setting it to false try setting another menuitem to true. Maybe one has to be default and thus it wont let you change to false but will automatically change to false if another is set to true kind og like a group of radio buttons. Just a guess.

[MrPolite]

Originally posted by Edneeis
Instead of setting it to false try setting another menuitem to true. Maybe one has to be default and thus it wont let you change to false but will automatically change to false if another is set to true kind og like a group of radio buttons. Just a guess.

Edneeis? you think MrPolite already hasnt thought of that ? eeh
I've tried setting all menu's defaultItem to false then another's to true. I've tried the reverse order too, setting the new menu's to true and the rest to false. doesnt seem to work

[Edneeis]

Well I tried.

[MrPolite]

Originally posted by Edneeis
Well I tried.

you tried!? no excuses!
hehe sorry, just kidding...

umm someone in gotdotnet said that he had the same problem but fixed it by toggling the visible property of the menu items. Seems to be a bug in the framework.....

I just cant believe how MS could write the framework with these obvious bugs. Those idiots probably knew about a bug as obvious as this one... I'm gonno try this visible thingie, hope it's gonno work

[MrPolite]

no need for code, but what the heck

Private Sub mnuiFlip_SubMenu_Click_ToggleDefaultItem(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles mnuiFlipBoth.Click, mnuiFlipH.Click, mnuiFlipV.Click
        Dim menuI, clickedMenu As MenuItem
        clickedMenu = DirectCast(sender, MenuItem)
        For Each menuI In mnuiFlip.MenuItems
            menuI.DefaultItem = False
            ' A bug in .NET framework requires to toggle the visible property
            ' this is because we are changing the defaultItem property
            menuI.Visible = False
            menuI.Visible = True
        Next
        clickedMenu.DefaultItem = True
    End Sub

beautiful sub name hehe seems to work fine