Question

I have a context menu with a few items. One of the items has a submenu (or whatever it’s called) with a few items (depends on what files it finds).

What I want to do is when I left click one of the sub-items I want one thing to happen, and when I right click I want another thing to happen.

My problem is that when I use the filesToolStripMenuItem_DropDownItemClicked, I don’t get any MouseEventArgs in the parameter, so I can’t find out which mouse button was used to click the item.

I tried adding it myself in the parameter but I get some error then.

Does anyone know how I can fix this? So I can find out what mouse button was used to click the sub-item (which is a ToolStripMenuItem)?

Thanks

edit: here is the code I use to create the sub items:

IPHostEntry ipE = Dns.GetHostEntry(Dns.GetHostName()); IPAddress[] IpA = ipE.AddressList; for (int i = 0; i < IpA.Length; i++) {       if (!IpA[i].ToString().Contains(':'))            cxItems.Items.Add(new ToolStripMenuItem(IpA[i].ToString())); } 

And for those items I want to be able to do different things depending on which mouse button I use

Answer 1

 private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)     {         ToolStripMenuItem item1 = new ToolStripMenuItem('Menu1');         ToolStripMenuItem subMenuitem1 = new ToolStripMenuItem('SubMenu');         item1.DropDownItems.Add(subMenuitem1);         this.contextMenuStrip1.Items.Add(item1);         subMenuitem1.MouseDown += new MouseEventHandler(subMenuitem1_MouseDown);         this.contextMenuStrip1.Show(this.button2,new Point(0,0));     }      void subMenuitem1_MouseDown(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)     {         //e.Button will determine which button was clicked.         MessageBox.Show(e.Button.ToString());     } 

That should help get you started.

RE: You’re edit:

The problem is, you’re just saying new ToolStripMenuItem(IpA[i].ToString()) without keep a reference to it. Here’s how you need to do it:

 IPHostEntry ipE = Dns.GetHostEntry(Dns.GetHostName());     IPAddress[] IpA = ipE.AddressList;     for (int i = 0; i < IpA.Length; i++)     {           if (!IpA[i].ToString().Contains(':'))           {                ToolStripMenuItem subItem = new ToolStripMenuItem(IpA[i].ToString());                subItem.MouseDown += new MouseEventHandler(subItem_MouseDown);                cxItems.Items.Add(subItem);           }     }      void subMenuitem1_MouseDown(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)     {           //get a reference to the menu that was clicked           ToolStripMenuItem clickedMenu = sender as ToolStripMenuItem;           //e.Button will tell you which button was clicked.     }