Question

There is a ContextMenuStrip in a grid control.

I have named it as GridContextMenu.

The GridContextMenu is populated with 4 – 5 items using the following code :

 gridcontextMenu.Items.Add(new ToolStripMenuItem
                        {
                            Name = Plants,
                            Text = Plants,
                            Tag = Plants,
                            Width = 100,
                            Image = <image source is put here>
                        });

gridcontextMenu.Items.Add(new ToolStripMenuItem
                        {
                            Name = Animals,
                            Text = Animals,
                            Tag = Animals,
                            Width = 100,
                            Image = <image source is put here>
                        });

For the animal menu in tool strip, i added submenu in the following way

(gridcontextMenu.Items[1] as ToolStripMenuItem).DropDownItems.Add("Tiger", image_source, new EventHandler(SubmenuItem_Click));
(gridcontextMenu.Items[1] as ToolStripMenuItem).DropDownItems.Add("Lion", image_source, new EventHandler(SubmenuItem_Click));
(gridcontextMenu.Items[1] as ToolStripMenuItem).DropDownItems.Add("Elephant", image_source, new EventHandler(SubmenuItem_Click));

In the SubmenuItem_Click event handler i need to know which animal submenu was clicked.

How to achieve this ?

currently i have the code for event handler in the following way :

private void SubmenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
}

How to check condition in this event that which animal submenu was selected ?
Kindly share the answer.

Answer 1

You can do something like this:

private void SubmenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    var clickedMenuItem = sender as MenuItem; 
    var menuText = clickedMenuItem.Text;

    switch(menuText) {
        case "Tiger":
           break;

        case "Lion":
          break;
         . ...
    }
}