Hi,
The hashtable allows you store items based on a key. The key is of
the object type. Why dont you store what you want to be a tag in a
hashtable with the menuitem as the key.
Ken
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> I am in a bit of a bind. I can't believe I cannot figure this out but I
have
> been at it all day and it is just not coming to me.
>
> I am building menus on a form based upon an XML file. I have created a
class
> to do this and that part is all working just fine. My problem is the event
> handler where I want all the click events to go. Not really building the
> event hander, just determining the individual menuItem that triggered the
> handler is my problem.
>
> My event handler looks like this:
>
> Private Sub MenuClick(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
>
> Dim menuItem As MenuItem
>
> menuItem = sender
>
> Debug.WriteLine("--" & menuItem.Text)
>
> End Sub
>
>
> What I want to be able to do it look at something on the sender object
(like
> a name or tag property) and determine what exact MenuItem triggered the
> event (I have all my menuitems going to the same handler).
>
> I thought that when I was creating my individual MenuItems I would be able
> to assign each of them an individual name like:
>
> mnuFile
> mnuFileNew
> mnuFileNewMessage
> ... etc ...
>
> and then be able to get then in code as something like sender.name or
> something, but I can't seem to be able to do that.
>
> All that I seem to be able to do it get the Text of the sender and this
just
> gets me the menu text, not really helpful in the long run.
>
> Besides rolling my own MenuItem class just to add some type of property
like
> Tag or Name, is there any way that I can do this? I know that I can use
> sender.GetType().Name but all this does is return the string 'MenuItem'
and
> that is no good to me.
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