I have an application where I need to set certain menu items invisible based on a
user privilege.
We did a sinmlar thing in VB6 and used the menu item's tag property to assign an
identifier to each menu entry, then used that identifier as an index into a
collection populated at user login in order to determine the item's visibility.
Now, for some reason there's no tag property for .NET MenuItems, so I'm looking for
some way to accomplish what I was able to do in VB6. If I could get access to the
menu name assigned at design time that could work, but I can't see how to do that.
It's not available at run time via the menu item's type.
The sample code in help has hideous If/Then/ElseIf structures like:
If menuitem is mnuFile Then
...
elseif menuitem is mnuEdit then
...
elseif...
But there has to be a better way to uniquely identify a menuitem at run time.
I suppose I could derive a class from MenuItem and define my own tag or other
identifier property, but then I wouldn't be able to use that class in the menu
designer.
Is it possible to discover the specific instance of the menuitem via reflection
somehow? 4 1831
Hi, Jeff
You can use same approach, which worked in VB6. While MenuItem doesn't
provide Tag property originally, you can always derive your TaggedMenuItem,
which has this property, and use it instead of MenuItem
Simple sample
class TaggedMenuItem : MenuItem {
public object Tag {
get ...
set ...
}
}
HTH
Alex
"Jeff Mason" <je******@comca st.net> wrote in message
news:r3******** *************** *********@4ax.c om... I have an application where I need to set certain menu items invisible
based on a user privilege.
We did a sinmlar thing in VB6 and used the menu item's tag property to
assign an identifier to each menu entry, then used that identifier as an index into
a collection populated at user login in order to determine the item's
visibility. Now, for some reason there's no tag property for .NET MenuItems, so I'm
looking for some way to accomplish what I was able to do in VB6. If I could get
access to the menu name assigned at design time that could work, but I can't see how to
do that. It's not available at run time via the menu item's type.
The sample code in help has hideous If/Then/ElseIf structures like:
If menuitem is mnuFile Then ... elseif menuitem is mnuEdit then ... elseif...
But there has to be a better way to uniquely identify a menuitem at run
time. I suppose I could derive a class from MenuItem and define my own tag or
other identifier property, but then I wouldn't be able to use that class in the
menu designer.
Is it possible to discover the specific instance of the menuitem via
reflection somehow?
On Sat, 29 May 2004 19:17:51 -0400, "AlexS" <sa***********@ SPAMsympaticoPL EASE.ca>
wrote: Hi, Jeff
You can use same approach, which worked in VB6. While MenuItem doesn't provide Tag property originally, you can always derive your TaggedMenuItem, which has this property, and use it instead of MenuItem
Simple sample
class TaggedMenuItem : MenuItem { public object Tag { get ... set ... } }
HTH Alex
Thank you for your response. But, as I said in my original post:
I suppose I could derive a class from MenuItem and define my own tag or other identifier property, but then I wouldn't be able to use that class in the menu designer.
so I was aware of this technique.
This is a large project with many many menu entries yet to be developed, so the menu
designer is pretty important to me.
Is there another way, perhaps via refelction, to identify the menu items in a form?
On Sat, 29 May 2004 19:17:51 -0400, "AlexS" <sa***********@ SPAMsympaticoPL EASE.ca>
wrote: Hi, Jeff
You can use same approach, which worked in VB6. While MenuItem doesn't provide Tag property originally, you can always derive your TaggedMenuItem, which has this property, and use it instead of MenuItem
Simple sample
class TaggedMenuItem : MenuItem { public object Tag { get ... set ... } }
HTH Alex
Thank you for your response. But, as I said in my original post:
I suppose I could derive a class from MenuItem and define my own tag or other identifier property, but then I wouldn't be able to use that class in the menu designer.
so I was aware of this technique.
This is a large project with many many menu entries yet to be developed, so the menu
designer is pretty important to me.
Is there another way, perhaps via refelction, to identify the menu items in a form?
Could you just use some schema with the name of the menu item?
Also you could do a find and replace with your derived class name on the
menuitem. That would solve your problem with not being able to use the
menu designer.
"Jeff Mason" <je******@comca st.net> wrote in message
news:qh******** *************** *********@4ax.c om... On Sat, 29 May 2004 19:17:51 -0400, "AlexS"
<sa***********@ SPAMsympaticoPL EASE.ca> wrote:
Hi, Jeff
You can use same approach, which worked in VB6. While MenuItem doesn't provide Tag property originally, you can always derive your
TaggedMenuItem,which has this property, and use it instead of MenuItem
Simple sample
class TaggedMenuItem : MenuItem { public object Tag { get ... set ... } }
HTH Alex Thank you for your response. But, as I said in my original post:
I suppose I could derive a class from MenuItem and define my own tag or
otheridentifier property, but then I wouldn't be able to use that class in the
menudesigner.
so I was aware of this technique.
This is a large project with many many menu entries yet to be developed,
so the menu designer is pretty important to me.
Is there another way, perhaps via refelction, to identify the menu items
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