Lecture 6: Creating Menus (Cont)

Introduction
 In Lecture 5 , we discussed the MenuStrip Control, which:
 Allows you to add Menus, Menu Items, and SubMenu Items…
 Including the addition of Access Keys and Shortcut Keys
 As well as Check Marks
 We also used the Menu Editor :
 Which allowed us to Add, Change, and Delete Menu Items.

 In this lecture, we continue our discussion of Menus, by :

 Finishing our QuickMenu Project
 Coding the Main (but not the Formatting) ToolStrip
 Testing our MenuStrip’s Functions
 Discussing Context Menus:
 A second type of ‘drop-down’ menu also supported by VB .NET
Coding the Main ToolStrip
Testing the Menu’s Functions
 Context Menus
 When you point at TextBox1 and <right-Click>…
 You will notice that a drop-down menu pops up automatically:

 This Context Menu provides many of the behaviors we just coded…

 However, we did not code this menu
 Furthermore, the Event Handlers we coded are not used here…
 Instead this default Context Menu is provided automatically by Windows:
 Whenever we <right-click> on a Control or Window.
 These support default, customized management of the selected Control
 For TextBoxes: Undo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, etc.

 VB .NET provides a method to Override such default menus:

 Allowing you to restrict functionality (e.g., no copying operation).
 The ContextMenuStrip Control
 VB .NET provides a ContextMenuStrip Control for Developers
 As usual, it can be placed on your Form directly…
 By being dragged from the ToolBox.
 The ContextMenuStrip is quite similar to the MenuStrip Control…
 It can be set up and customized in just the same way.
 However, it supports only 1 Top-level Menu.

 Most Controls in the ToolBox have a ContextMenu Property

 This allows you to define a ContextMenuStrip for use with that Control.
 When you click the Property, you may select your own ContextMenu…
 Rather than the Default.
 Note: some Controls do NOT have a default ContextMenu
 These are generally Controls that contain a List of Items (not just one item).
 e.g.: ComboBoxes, ListBoxes
 However, they still have a ContextMenu Property that can be set.
 ContextMenu Example (1)
 To demonstrate, let’s add a ContextMenuStrip to our Project:
 We will code it to duplicate some convenient functions of our MenuStrip.
ContextMenu Example (2)
ContextMenu Ex (3)
ContextMenu Example (4)