Development Notebook

C# Beautified Menu Entries

There are not many examples of how to do things in C# in a beautiful way. Even the O'Reilly examples are sometimes pretty crufty. Here's an example of how to create an entire menu, including submenus without any goofy placeholder variables.

  public void CreateMenus() {
            MenuStrip menu = new MenuStrip();
            menu.Items.AddRange( new ToolStripItem[]{
                new ToolStripMenuItem("&File", null,
                new ToolStripMenuItem("&Close", null, new EventHandler(CloseMenu_Click)),
                new ToolStripMenuItem("E&xit", null, new EventHandler(ExitMenu_Click)))
                ,
                new ToolStripMenuItem("&Edit", null,
                new ToolStripMenuItem("&New Thing", null, new EventHandler(EditNewThingMenu_Click)))
                ,
                new ToolStripMenuItem("&Pen", null,
                new ToolStripMenuItem("&Pencil", null, new EventHandler(PenMenu_Click)),
                new ToolStripMenuItem("Bl&ack Pen", null, new EventHandler(PenMenu_Click)),
                new ToolStripMenuItem("Bl&ue Pen", null, new EventHandler(PenMenu_Click)),
                new ToolStripMenuItem("Eraser", null, new EventHandler(PenMenu_Click)))
            });
            foreach( ToolStripItem i in menu.Items)
                i.Font = Global.MenuFont;
            Global.ExplorerForm.MainMenuStrip = menu;
  }

# posted by John : 10:30 PM