ContextMenu

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Tony Johansson

Hello!

Is it possible to get the control that was clicked on when the ContextMeny
is used without using the Opening
event for the ContextMenu.

//Tony
 
Is it possible to get the control that was clicked on when the ContextMeny
is used without using the Opening
event for the ContextMenu.
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"Yes, but...."

I have retrieved the control that opened the context menu (a picture box in
this case) with code like this:

private void SomeContextMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
ToolStripMenuItem item = (ToolStripMenuItem)sender;
PictureBox source =
(PictureBox)((ContextMenuStrip)item.Owner).SourceControl;
[...]
}

Now here's the but: due to a bug in VS (which affects both 2005 and 2008),
if your context menu item is on a submenu (and I know it's rare for context
menus to have submenus, but it happens), then the Owner property will ALWAYS
return null. I know this because A) I have experienced it and B) I have seen
the Connect bug report which is marked "Won't fix but maybe it'll work right
in VS 2010" (or words to that effect).
 
Now here's the but: due to a bug in VS (which affects both 2005 and 2008),
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I think I blamed the wrong thing. It's a bug in the System.Windows.Forms
library, not Visual Studio. My deepest, dirt-licking apologies to the Visual
Studio team....
 
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