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Deepak Gupta
Deepak Gupta

Reputation: 73

ToolStripMenuItem show sub menu on Mouse hover in Windows Forms

I am having a windows form menu strip control. And having ToolStripMenu Item with text of "Click Me". Now i want to display its sub menu toolstrip items on Mouse Hover Event of the "Click Me" ToolStrip. Can any one suggest how its can be done.

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Here on mousehover event i want to display its sub menu item like this

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 5623

Answers (2)

Deepak Gupta
Deepak Gupta

Reputation: 73

System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem clickmeeToolStripMenuItem
this.clickmeeToolStripMenuItem = new System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem()
this.clickmeeToolStripMenuItem.MouseHover += new System.EventHandler(this.clickmeeToolStripMenuItem_MouseHover);

//ADD THIS METHOD TO YOUR EVENT METHOD

clickmeeToolStripMenuItem.ShowDropDown();

Upvotes: 0

Reza Aghaei
Reza Aghaei

Reputation: 125197

You can handle MouseHover event of the items and then using ShowDropDown method, open the dropdown. This way, menus will open on hover rather than click.

For example:

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    this.menuStrip1.Items.OfType<ToolStripMenuItem>().ToList().ForEach(x =>
    {
        x.MouseHover += (obj, arg) => ((ToolStripDropDownItem)obj).ShowDropDown();
    });
}

Upvotes: 3

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