How to open menu programmatically

[Gregory K]

I am using Windows Forms, C#, VS2005.
I am developing an assistant that will guide a user through the application.
At some point I need to open specific menus just like the user would by
moving a mouse over it (for example, open File submenu in the Main menu).
How can I do it from the code?
Gregory

 

[miher]

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I am using Windows Forms, C#, VS2005.
I am developing an assistant that will guide a user through the
application.
At some point I need to open specific menus just like the user would by
moving a mouse over it (for example, open File submenu in the Main menu).
How can I do it from the code?
Gregory

Hi,

Try using the ShowDropDown method.
(
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.toolstripdropdownitem.showdropdown.aspx )

Hope You find this useful.
-Zsolt

 

[Gregory K]

Thank you. This is exactly what I need.
Gregory

 

[Gregory K]

I have another question. How can I programmatically show the context menu of
a TreeNode? I tried node.ContextMenuStrip.Show() but it shows the menu in a
wrong location. I can determine absolute location of the node at run time and
use it as a parameter to Show() but it's not trivial. I hope there is a
better way.
Gregory

 

[Jeff Johnson]

I have another question. How can I programmatically show the context menu
of
a TreeNode? I tried node.ContextMenuStrip.Show() but it shows the menu in
a
wrong location. I can determine absolute location of the node at run time
and
use it as a parameter to Show() but it's not trivial. I hope there is a
better way.

Nope, that's the only way. Why do you say it's not trivial, though? Just use
the Show() overload that takes a Control and a Point, and use the parent
tree view as the Control and extract a Point from the node's Bounds
property.