Get object that called context menu

[Eric]

Hello,

I have a single ConextMenu that is used for dozens of labels. When the user
right-clicks the label, they select a menu item, and that label's text and
tag should be added to a ListBox.

How can I reference the label that initially called the context menu to
popup? I know that I could get the X, Y coordinates of the click, but is
there a more precise way to do this?

Thank you,

Eric

 

[Confessor]

Hello,

I have a single ConextMenu that is used for dozens of labels. When
the user right-clicks the label, they select a menu item, and that
label's text and tag should be added to a ListBox.

How can I reference the label that initially called the context menu
to popup? I know that I could get the X, Y coordinates of the click,
but is there a more precise way to do this?

Thank you,

Eric

I could be completely off-track, since I am a bit of a novice...

But couldn't you use the *sender* argument to grab the label's identity on
a mouseup/down event? Or is that not how you access your ContextMenu?

 

[Mick Doherty]

ContextMenu.SourceControl

 

[Eric]

I could be completely off-track, since I am a bit of a novice...

But couldn't you use the *sender* argument to grab the label's identity on
a mouseup/down event? Or is that not how you access your ContextMenu?

Thank you for the reply, Confessor. The sender argument is of type
MenuItem. Mick's answer (ContextMenu.SourceControl) is correct.

Eric

 

[Eric]

Thank you, Mick. Just what I was looking for. (I don't know how I missed
that on MSDN!)

Eric

"Mick Doherty"