ToolStripMenuItem and KeyPress or KeyDown event

Anonymous User 4780 28 Jan 2014

I am using ToolStripDropDownButton and dynamically adding menu items as below:

toolStripDropDownButton1.DropDownItems.Clear();

ToolStripMenuItem item1 = new ToolStripMenuItem("Item1");

toolStripDropDownButton1.DropDownItems.Add(item1);

ToolStripMenuItem item2 = new ToolStripMenuItem("Item2");

toolStripDropDownButton1.DropDownItems.Add(item2);

I would like to delete the selected menu item when the Delete key is pressed. But the ToolStripMenuItem doesn't have KeyPress or KeyDown event.

I am using Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0. Any suggestions on how to achieve this functionality?

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Updated 28 Jan 2014

1 Answers

Pravesh Singh 28 Jan 2014

Hi Jay,

The enclosing ToolStrip gets the key events so you can handle it there with something like:

toolStripDropDownButton1.KeyDown += (s, e) =>
{
    if (e.KeyCode ==Keys.Delete)
    {
        foreach (var item in ((ToolStrip)s).Items.OfType<ToolStripMenuItem>())
        {
            if(item.Selected)
            {
               
((ToolStrip)s).Items.Remove(item);
                break;
            }
        }
    }
};

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