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JScript .NET, Part XI: Creating Windows Forms: Creating Form Menus - Doc JavaScript


JScript .NET, Part XI: Creating Windows Forms

Creating Form Menus

In this last demo, we show you how to add a menu bar to a window. Suppose we want to add the File menu at the top menu bar, as you find in most applications. We want to include a single item in this File menu, the Save entry. We also want to have a shortcut key for this entry, which is CTRL-S, as in most applications. We'll just pop up a message box to confirm the menu item selection.

We add this feature on top of what we showed in Page 6. Windows forms support two relevant classes: MainMenu and MenuItem. A menu item in Windows forms needs three variables:

  • The top menu bar
  • The menu column (File in our case)
  • The menu item (Save in our case)

We call these variables menuMain, menuFile, and menuSave. We define them as follows:

var menuMain : System.Windows.Forms.MainMenu;
var menuFile : System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem; 
var menuSave : System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem;

We initialize a menu system from the bottom up. We first initialize menuSave, then menuFile, and finally menuMain. Here is the definition of menuSave:

menuSave = new System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem();
menuSave.add_Click(menuSave_Clicked);
menuSave.Text = "Save";
menuSave.ShowShortcut = true;
menuSave.Shortcut = "CtrlS";

The event handler of a Click event is menuSave_Clicked. We just pop up a message box as a response to the Click event:

private function menuSave_Clicked(o : Object, e : EventArgs) {
  MessageBox.Show("We should save the file now");
}

We continue with the initialization of menuFile. We can now add the previously-initialized menuSave:

menuFile = new System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem();
menuFile.MenuItems.Add(menuSave);
menuFile.Text = "File";
menuFile.ShowShortcut = false;

We finish the menu creation by initializing the top menu bar and adding menuFile to it:

menuMain = new System.Windows.Forms.MainMenu();
menuMain.MenuItems.Add(menuFile);

The package name is MenuPkg and the class name is MenuCls. We pop up the windows form by calling Application.Run():

Application.Run(new MenuPkg.MenuCls());

You should get the following window:


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