[RESOLVED] [2005] Context menu :(

[Atheist]

Hello.

Could someone give me an example of how to add a new contextmenu item TO another item so it'll be a "submenu"?

lets say i want to add "Hello" to the already existing menu item "Good day".

Thanks!

[jmcilhinney]

Each menu item has a property named 'MenuItems' or something like that. You add other menu items to that collection and they become subitems and will be displayed automatically.

[Atheist]

they havnt got any menu item like that

[RobDog888]

To create submenus, you can add MenuItem objects to the MenuItems property of the parent MenuItem.

'Will get you another cm menu item
Me.ContextMenu1.MenuItems.Add("Hello", New EventHandler(AddressOf cmPopup_Click))
 
'To add submenus
Me.ContextMenu1.MenuItems.Add(cmSubMenu1, New EventHandler(AddressOf cmPopupSub1_Click))

[jmcilhinney]

they havnt got any menu item like that

You're using 2005 so I assume that you're using a ContextMenuStrip. It has an Items property, to which you can add ToolStripMenuItems, and each of them has a DropDownItems property, to which you can add more menu items. Here's some basic code to create a two level menu. You'd need to do a bit more work to make it do anything useful but this will give the visual element.

Me.ContextMenuStrip1.Items.Add("Hello")
        Me.ContextMenuStrip1.Items.Add("World")
        Me.ContextMenuStrip1.Items.Add("Goodbye")
 
        Dim firstMenuItem As ToolStripMenuItem = DirectCast(Me.ContextMenuStrip1.Items(0), ToolStripMenuItem)
 
        firstMenuItem.DropDownItems.Add("Item 1")
        firstMenuItem.DropDownItems.Add("Item 2")
        firstMenuItem.DropDownItems.Add("Item 3")

[Atheist]

Thanks alot! I used jmcilhinney example and it works fine