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

GriffMG · Oct 9, 2013

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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Moregelen · Oct 29, 2013

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:

[COLOR=#008000]// [/color]
            [COLOR=#008000]// subMenuTwoToolStripMenuItem[/color]
            [COLOR=#008000]// [/color]
            [COLOR=#0000FF]this[/color].subMenuTwoToolStripMenuItem.DropDownItems.AddRange([COLOR=#0000FF]new[/color] System.Windows.Forms.[COLOR=#2B91AF]ToolStripItem[/color]&#91;&#93; {
            [COLOR=#0000FF]this[/color].subMenu2x1ToolStripMenuItem,
            [COLOR=#0000FF]this[/color].subMenu2x2ToolStripMenuItem});
            [highlight #FCE94F][COLOR=#0000FF]this[/color].subMenuTwoToolStripMenuItem.Enabled = [COLOR=#0000FF]false[/color];[/highlight]
            [COLOR=#0000FF]this[/color].subMenuTwoToolStripMenuItem.Name = [COLOR=#A31515]&quot;subMenuTwoToolStripMenuItem&quot;[/color];
            [COLOR=#0000FF]this[/color].subMenuTwoToolStripMenuItem.Size = [COLOR=#0000FF]new[/color] System.Drawing.[COLOR=#2B91AF]Size[/color](161, 22);
            [COLOR=#0000FF]this[/color].subMenuTwoToolStripMenuItem.Text = [COLOR=#A31515]&quot;Sub Menu Two&quot;[/color];

GriffMG · Oct 29, 2013

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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Moregelen · Oct 29, 2013

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

GriffMG · Oct 29, 2013

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

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Moregelen · Oct 29, 2013

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

GriffMG · Oct 29, 2013

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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