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Sander
Sander

Reputation: 173

Find all ContextMenuStrips in Windows Form

How is it possible to loop through all ContextMenus within a Windows Form?

What I currently have is:

public void SearchContextMenuStrip(Form Window)
{
    foreach (Control item in Window.Controls)
    {
        if (item is ContextMenuStrip)
        {
            MessageBox.Show("ContextMenuStrip found!", "ContextMenuStrip found");
        }
        else
        {

        }
    }
}

This works fine for all other controls but not for the ContextMenus.

I want this to be able to translate all text for a multi language application so if someone knows a better solution for this it is much appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 691

Answers (3)

MiMFa
MiMFa

Reputation: 1164

I think the best solution is using reflection and finding the ContextMenuStrips between all objects. this script will be able to return all ContextMenuStrips.

    public static bool IsLastObject(object obj)
    {
        if (obj == null) return true;
        Type type = obj.GetType();
        return 
            type.IsArray ||
            type.IsEnum ||
            type.IsPointer ||
            type.IsAbstract ||
            type.IsSealed;
    }

    public static IEnumerable<Control> GetAllControls(object obj, int maxNests = 25)
    {
        if (obj == null || maxNests < 0) yield break;
        Type type = obj.GetType();
        List<Control> list = new List<Control>();
        if (obj is Control)
            foreach (Control item in ((Control)obj).Controls)
            {
                list.Add(item);
                yield return item;
            }
        foreach (var item in type.GetFields())
        {
            var nobj = item.GetValue(obj);
            if (nobj == null) continue;
            if (nobj is Control && !list.Contains((Control)nobj)) yield return (Control)nobj;
            if (IsLastObject(nobj)) continue;
            foreach (var ni in GetAllControls(nobj, maxNests - 1))
                yield return ni;
        }
    }

    public static IEnumerable<ContextMenuStrip> GetAllToolStrips(object control, int maxNests = 25)
    {
        foreach (var item in GetAllControls(control, maxNests))
            if (item is ContextMenuStrip) yield return (ContextMenuStrip)item;
    }

Enjoy...

Upvotes: 0

mohsen
mohsen

Reputation: 1806

You can associate just one ContextMenuStrip to each control so I think you want ToolStripMenuItem

foreach( var item in Window.ContextMenuStrip.Items)
{
}

Upvotes: 1

Mahesh Malpani
Mahesh Malpani

Reputation: 1999

Use resx file and for each region-language create it with translation. Use the settings.NAME instead of hard coding. Localization will be applied automatically.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa992030(v=vs.100).aspx

Upvotes: 0

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