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Menu Items on Winforms... disabled going down, enabled going up...

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Menu Items on Winforms... disabled going down, enabled going up...

Menu Items on Winforms... disabled going down, enabled going up...

(OP)
Is this normal?

I have a form with a menu bar on it, one of the options, which has a sub-menu, is disabled.

If I move the mouse cursor down the list the result is perfect, you can hover over the item
in question and the sub-menu does not appear - great.

If I then move one (enabled) item down, the sub-menu for that item appears - correctly...

But if I now move back up, and hover over the disabled item, the sub-menu for it appears and
I can click on the sub-menu items that shouldn't be available.

In fact, this isn't just an up/down thing, if I hover over ANY menu item with sub-items, I can then access
the disabled ones sub-menu items as well.

This can't be right can it?

Regards

Griff
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RE: Menu Items on Winforms... disabled going down, enabled going up...

Which version of .NET are you targeting and how did you disable the menu?

I did a little test (4.5 framework) and then I disabled by just going into the code and adding the Enabled = false. Working perfectly.

CODE --> C#

// 
            // subMenuTwoToolStripMenuItem
            // 
            this.subMenuTwoToolStripMenuItem.DropDownItems.AddRange(new System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem[] {
            this.subMenu2x1ToolStripMenuItem,
            this.subMenu2x2ToolStripMenuItem});
            this.subMenuTwoToolStripMenuItem.Enabled = false;
            this.subMenuTwoToolStripMenuItem.Name = "subMenuTwoToolStripMenuItem";
            this.subMenuTwoToolStripMenuItem.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(161, 22);
            this.subMenuTwoToolStripMenuItem.Text = "Sub Menu Two";

RE: Menu Items on Winforms... disabled going down, enabled going up...

(OP)
Hi

It's .NET framework 4.0.30319, visual studio 2010

I ended up just making it invisible, but it's really annoying, because sometimes you want users
to see what would be available if they logged in or whatever

Regards

Griff
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There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

RE: Menu Items on Winforms... disabled going down, enabled going up...

Hmmm. Are you launching it initially enabled and then disabling it in the code, or the other way around?

RE: Menu Items on Winforms... disabled going down, enabled going up...

(OP)
I am disabling it in code, from an enabled state.

Regards

Griff
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There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

RE: Menu Items on Winforms... disabled going down, enabled going up...

How strange; even changing it to work that way I can't seem to reproduce the issue you're having.

RE: Menu Items on Winforms... disabled going down, enabled going up...

(OP)
It's not behaviour I would expect.

I'm not disabling the submenu items individually, just the parent, and it only 'reenables' the
submenu items if I hover over another (any other) enabled menu items with sub items.

Regards

Griff
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