How to add things to a menustrip programatically?

Question

I want to add whatever is written in a textbox to a menustrip. In the File > Recent Searches thing I have.

How can I do programatically? And can I assign an event ha

Answer 1

It's rather straight forward. You can do the following:

ToolStripMenuItem menuItem

foreach (string text in collectionOfText)
{
    ToolStripMenuItem foo = new ToolStripMenuItem(text);
    foo.Click += new EventHandler(ClickEvent);
    menuItem.DropDownItems.Add(foo);
}

Subsequently, if the Click event doesn't work (I had trouble where it wouldn't detect the correct menu item), you can add a "DropDownItemClicked" event to the menuItem. and to get the text of the item you clicked you do:

private void DropedDownItemClickedEvent(object sender, ToolStripItemClickedEventArgs e)
{
    string text = e.ClickedItem.Text;
}

I hope that helps.

Oh and don't forget to remove the Event as well. I forgot to do that with all the dynamic menus I had created and somehow ended up eating half my memory. :D