Re: Handling lots of menu entries

Richard Heintze schrieb:

> How would this work if I am using the Forms Designer
> (aka Dialog Editor)? I would create my 10 menu itmes
> and for a single menu item double click on to create
> an event for just that menu entry and go back and edit
> the other to add the same event to the other menu
> entries using the overloaded "+="?

As Andy said: use the designer to select the same handler for each item.

> Where would I do this? In the constructor for the
> Form?

This is also a possibility.

> Ok, so what do I do in the event hander? Would it look
> like this?
>
> MenuItem * pMI = (MenuItem*)sender;
> if(pMI == miOpacity100) Opacity = 1.0;
> else if (pMI == miOpacity90) Opacity=.9;
> else if (pMI == miOpacity80) Opacity=.8;
> ...

For example (no need for the cast, though). Or you use an appropriate
data structure to map menu items to float values.

Fabian