Dynamically add items to a Context Menu & set Click action

Question

Hi,

I have a List of strings that is regenerated every 5 seconds. I want to create a Context Menu and set its items dynamically using this list. The problem is that I don't have even a clue how to do that and manage the Click action for every item generated (which should use the same method with different parameter DoSomething("item_name")).

How should I do this?

Thanks for your time. Best regards.

Answer 1

So, you can clear the items from the context menu with:

myContextMenuStrip.Items.Clear();

You can add an item by calling:

myContextMenuStrip.Items.Add(myString);

The context menu has an ItemClicked event. Your handler could look like so:

private void myContextMenuStrip_ItemClicked(object sender, ToolStripItemClickedEventArgs e)
{
    DoSomething(e.ClickedItem.Text);
}

Seems to work OK for me. Let me know if I misunderstood your question.