Regarding context menu

[alexis4]

Hi!

I have a ContextMenuStrip inside a form. This has several items like that:

I also attached the image at the bottom of the post.

For some reason, I want to change all items of the context menu simultaneously. So I wrote this peace of code:

int a = 0;
foreach (ToolStripItem co in contextMenuStrip1.Items)
{
  co.Text = "Menu" + a.ToString();
  a++;
}
 

But what I get is "engl1" and "engl2" menus changed into "menu1" and "menu2" as expected, but "engl11" and "engl12" stayed as they were and didn't change into "menu3" and "menu4" as I wanted to.

So how can I have access to those subitems too?

Thanks!

[GaryTexmo]

Instead of using the ToolStripItem object, use a ToolStripMenuItem object. This has a property called DropDownItems that provides access to the list of sub items. ToolStripItem is a more generic object than ToolStripMenuItem so it doesn't provide as much information. You can follow the inheritance tree by right-clicking on the type in visual studio and selecting Go To Definition. Keep doing this and you will eventually find ToolStripItem :)

You may also want to consider a recursive method to handle processing this, as you could conceivably have a menu N levels deep. This should be easy enough to do but if you need help, please feel free to ask!

[alexis4]

Thank you GaryTexmo, I will work on that and let you know.