MenuItem::Select Event
Occurs when the user places the pointer over a menu item.
Assembly: System.Windows.Forms (in System.Windows.Forms.dll)
This event is typically raised when the user places the mouse pointer over the menu item. The event can also be raised when the user highlights a menu item using the keyboard by scrolling to the menu item with the arrow keys. You can use this event to display a detailed help string pertaining to this menu item in an application's status bar. For more information about handling events, see Handling and Raising Events.
The following code example demonstrates how to use the Select event of the MenuItem class to assign help text to a StatusBarPanel of a StatusBar control. This example requires that MenuItem objects named menuOpen, menuSave, and menuExit are added to a MainMenu control on a form. The example also requires that a StatusBar control, named statusBar1 has been added to the form. The StatusBar control should contain a StatusBarPanel.
private: void MenuSelected( Object^ sender, System::EventArgs^ /*e*/ ) { if ( sender == menuOpen ) statusBar1->Panels[ 0 ]->Text = "Opens a file to edit"; else if ( sender == menuSave ) statusBar1->Panels[ 0 ]->Text = "Saves the current file"; else if ( sender == menuExit ) statusBar1->Panels[ 0 ]->Text = "Exits the application"; else statusBar1->Panels[ 0 ]->Text = "Ready"; }
Available since 1.1
