Setting .Text property of a group of textboxes from another control

[eljainc]

Hello,

I am trying to figure out how to efficiently do the following:

Say I have 10 TextBox fields on a form. From each of those, I would
like to have
a right click context menu. There are 10 menu items on the context
menu. Once
one of those items are selected, I would like the text to be copied
into the text field
of the appropriate textbox.

In the click Handler, I have something like:

private void myToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

{
ToolStripMenuItem m = (ToolStripMenuItem)sender;
string mystr = m.Text;
// set the text field


}

Can someone tell me the c# construct to set the Text property of the
"calling" object, in this case a textbox?

Thanks
Mike

 

[zacks]

Hello,

I am trying to figure out how to efficiently do the following:

Say I have 10 TextBox fields on a form. From each of those, I would
like to have
a right click context menu. There are 10 menu items on the context
menu. Once
one of those items are selected, I would like the text to be copied
into the text field
of the appropriate textbox.

In the click Handler, I have something like:

private void myToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {
            ToolStripMenuItem m = (ToolStripMenuItem)sender;
            string mystr = m.Text;
            // set the text field

        }

Can someone tell me the c# construct to set the Text property of the
"calling" object, in this case a textbox?

I'm sure there are probably more "elegant" ways to do it, but you
might want to consider some creative use of the ToolStripMenuItem's
Tag property.

 

[eljainc]

Pete, thanks! The ContextMenu.SourceControl property is just what I
needed.

Mike