Setting .Text property of a group of textboxes from another control

[eljainc]

Hello,

I am trying to figure out how to efficiently do the following:

Say I have 10 TextBox fields on a form. From each of those, I would
like to have
a right click context menu. There are 10 menu items on the context
menu. Once
one of those items are selected, I would like the text to be copied
into the text field
of the appropriate textbox.

In the click Handler, I have something like:

private void myToolStripMenu Item_Click(obje ct sender, EventArgs e)

{
ToolStripMenuIt em m = (ToolStripMenuI tem)sender;
string mystr = m.Text;
// set the text field


}

Can someone tell me the c# construct to set the Text property of the
"calling" object, in this case a textbox?

Thanks
Mike

[zacks@construction-imaging.com]

Re: Setting .Text property of a group of textboxes from anothercontrol

On May 30, 2:54 pm, eljainc <elja...@sbcglo bal.netwrote:

Hello,
>
I am trying to figure out how to efficiently do the following:
>
Say I have 10 TextBox fields on a form. From each of those, I would
like to have
a right click context menu. There are 10 menu items on the context
menu. Once
one of those items are selected, I would like the text to be copied
into the text field
of the appropriate textbox.
>
In the click Handler, I have something like:
>
private void myToolStripMenu Item_Click(obje ct sender, EventArgs e)
>
        {
            ToolStripMenuIt em m = (ToolStripMenuI tem)sender;
            string mystr = m.Text;
            // set the text field
>
        }
>
Can someone tell me the c# construct to set the Text property of the
"calling" object, in this case a textbox?

I'm sure there are probably more "elegant" ways to do it, but you
might want to consider some creative use of the ToolStripMenuIt em's
Tag property.

[Peter Duniho]

Re: Setting .Text property of a group of textboxes from another control

On Fri, 30 May 2008 11:54:35 -0700, eljainc <eljainc@sbcglo bal.netwrote:

[...]
Can someone tell me the c# construct to set the Text property of the
"calling" object, in this case a textbox?

You can retrieve the control that caused the context menu to appear using
the ContextMenuStri p.SourceControl property (after getting the
ContextMenuStri p parent from the menu item, of course). Then, just set
the Text property of that Control instance.

Warning: there's a bug in .NET in which the SourceControl property is only
valid for top-level menu items. As long as you don't have sub-menus, this
won't be an issue. If you do, there are work-arounds...a Google search in
this newsgroup will help you find previous comments on that topic.

For what it's worth, your subject and your description of the control as
"the 'calling' object" both seem inaccurate to me, given what appears to
be the actual goal here. You may find that it's easier to get good
answers to your questions if you take care to make sure you've described
the question as simply, and non-prejudicially as possible (on the latter
point, I mean that the inaccurate parts I mentioned seem to be inaccurate
because of a presumption on your part as to what the solution might look
like, rather than simply stating the broader problem being solved).

Of course, I may have misunderstood the question, and if so then my
comments about the accuracy of the question may themselves be inaccurate.
However, even in that case there'd still be a good argument that the
question was ambiguous. :)

Pete

[eljainc]

Re: Setting .Text property of a group of textboxes from anothercontrol


Pete, thanks! The ContextMenu.Sou rceControl property is just what I
needed.

Mike