Thank you for your response Bill. The sample you linked to follows (and confirms) the same design pattern as my snippet.
One other question: Is there a good way to enable/disable menu items in a defered, but dynamic way? I would like to set the enabled status for the menus when the Edit menu is activated and not when the textbox's edit status changes. I noticed that the Selected event will not fire for parent MenuItems. That leaves the Click or Popup event. From the documentation, Popup would seem to be for used for this very purpose... -- Peter > Bill Schmidt spake: > > Peter -- > > See http://discuss.develop.com/archives/wa.exe? > A2=ind0110c&L=dotnet&F=&S=&P=8043 > > This will work in an MDI WinForm. > > Bill > > On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:21:05 -0700, Peter Stephens <peter- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Unlike FoxPro or MFC there doesn't seem to be any automagic > support for the > >standard edit commands in a main menu. The textbox does have a context > menu, > >but there doesn't seem to be a way to associate that with a main > menu or a > >merge menu (in MDI). > > > >I have an idea for a method that might work: > > > >------> > >bool AllowCut() > >{ > > TextBox textBox = GetCurrentControlAsTextBox(); > > if(textBox == null) return false; > > > > // Do we have text to cut? > > return textBox.SelectionLength > 0; > >} > > > >void CutText() > >{ > > TextBox textBox = GetCurrentControlAsTextBox(); > > if(textBox == null) return; > > > > // Cut the text > > if(textBox.SelectionLength <= 0) return; > > Clipboard.SetDataObject(textBox.SelectedText); > > textBox.SelectedText = ""; > >} > > > >// Return active control if it is a textbox, otherwise null > >TextBox GetCurrentControlAsTextBox() > >{ > > Form activeWin = ActiveMdiChild; > > if(activeWin == null) return null; > > Control activeControl = activeWin.ActiveControl; > > if(activeControl == null) return null; > > return activeControl as TextBox; > >} > > > ><------ > > > >These routines would be wired into a main MDI window. > >This code has _NOT_ been tested and might not work, but it is > where I will > >start. Better ideas are welcome! > > > >-- > >Peter > > > >You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from > DOTNET, or > >subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. > > You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or > subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. > You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
