How to open menu programmatically

1 Jul 2009 3:44 PM

Gregory K

I am using Windows Forms, C#, VS2005.
I am developing an assistant that will guide a user through the application.
At some point I need to open specific menus just like the user would by
moving a mouse over it (for example, open File submenu in the Main menu).
How can I do it from the code?
Gregory

1 Jul 2009 8:42 PM

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> I am using Windows Forms, C#, VS2005.
> I am developing an assistant that will guide a user through the
> application.
> At some point I need to open specific menus just like the user would by
> moving a mouse over it (for example, open File submenu in the Main menu).
> How can I do it from the code?
> Gregory

Hi,

Try using the ShowDropDown method.
(
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.toolstripdropdownitem.showdropdown.aspx )

Hope You find this useful.
-Zsolt

2 Jul 2009 1:56 PM

Gregory K

Thank you. This is exactly what I need.
Gregory

2 Jul 2009 3:01 PM

Gregory K

I have another question. How can I programmatically show the context menu of
a TreeNode? I tried node.ContextMenuStrip.Show() but it shows the menu in a
wrong location. I can determine absolute location of the node at run time and
use it as a parameter to Show() but it's not trivial. I hope there is a
better way.
Gregory

2 Jul 2009 5:36 PM

Jeff Johnson

"Gregory K" <Grego***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have another question. How can I programmatically show the context menu
>of
> a TreeNode? I tried node.ContextMenuStrip.Show() but it shows the menu in
> a
> wrong location. I can determine absolute location of the node at run time
> and
> use it as a parameter to Show() but it's not trivial. I hope there is a
> better way.

Nope, that's the only way. Why do you say it's not trivial, though? Just use
the Show() overload that takes a Control and a Point, and use the parent
tree view as the Control and extract a Point from the node's Bounds
property.