C# retrieving MenuItems names...

[EFileTahi-A]

Is is possible to retrieve the menu items names?

 

I can make it list the Menu items .Text:

 

foreach (System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem cCtrl in mainMenu.mainMenu1.MenuItems)
{
	foreach (System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem cCtrlSub in cCtrl.MenuItems)
		{
			MessageBox.Show(cCtrlSub.Text.ToString());
		}
}

 

Unfortunatey the System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem does not have the ".Name" propperty...

 

Is there any other way to make a loop where i can get a list of all menuItems names?

[Iceplug]

Why would you need the Name of the menus? Menuitems do not carry names around like controls do, and they're pretty much like an integer or a string... they don't carry a name.

If you need to reference a control, use the reference to the control. Don't try to do something overly complicated with the name of the menu. :)

[EFileTahi-A]

Why would you need the Name of the menus? Menuitems do not carry names around like controls do, and they're pretty much like an integer or a string... they don't carry a name.

If you need to reference a control, use the reference to the control. Don't try to do something overly complicated with the name of the menu. :)

 

Imagine a button control...

The point to get the control.name is that u can modify its control.text and perserving the control name, so if I point to a control.name it will always be "ok" no matter how many changes its .text property suffers... The hole thing was to put into the database all menuitems (.name) in fields true / false, so that I could choose wich menuitems would be enabled / disabled, Visible (true, false). Yet, the program would automaticaly add a colunm into the database if a new menu would be add to the program, by using only the text reference, everytime I rename the menuItem.text, a column will be add into the database, whitch I dont wan't!. (there is not even the tag property which could do the same job .name would do)...