How do I give a drop-down menu an event listener?

Question

I am using Visual Studio 2010 Express, and I created a drop-down menu. How do I give it functionality, aka an event for each choice selected? My goal is to run a vb script depending on the choice.

Answer 1

Hi,

I have moved this thread to Visual Basic forum for better response.

Best regards,

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Answer 2

Assuming you are working in the designer, you can select the menu item, go to the properties window, and in the events list for the menu item, set the Click event.

As an alternative, you can just double-click on the menu item in the designer and it will generate the event handler and take you directly to the code view.

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Answer 3

I am using Visual Studio 2010 Express, and I created a drop-down menu. How do I give it functionality, aka an event for each choice selected? My goal is to run a vb script depending on the choice.

Can you elaborate this a little bit more in particular. What do you mean with VB script?

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Answer 4

I am using Visual Studio 2010 Express, and I created a drop-down menu. How do I give it functionality, aka an event for each choice selected? My goal is to run a vb script depending on the choice.

Can you elaborate this a little bit more in particular. What do you mean with VB script?

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I had already written VB Scripts before I started using Express. When you choose a drop-down menu choice, it'll run the respective VB script.

Hi,

I have moved this thread to Visual Basic forum for better response.

Best regards,

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Answer 5

Hi,

 If you added a menu to your Form from the ToolBox and added some items in it like i added (Click Me) and (Something Else) as items just for this example. You can double click the item and it will automatically make the code to handle the item being clicked. It will bring you rite to the code where you put whatever you want to happen when the item is clicked by the user.

If i double click here on (Click Me)

It will create the code like below and bring you rite to it.

    Private Sub ClickMeToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ClickMeToolStripMenuItem.Click

    End Sub

Now type the code in for whatever you want to happen if the item is clicked by the user.

If you created the menu and its items in code instead then you can use the AddHandler Statement to add a handler to the menu items.

EDIT : I should also add that if your adding the items in the code then depending on how your creating the Items you may be able to use the WithEvents when you create them. They would have to be Class scoped to do it though. You can check out the link below to see examples for this.

Dim WithEvents Item1 As New MenuItem

WithEvents and the Handles Clause

Answer 6

Well, I'm wondering how I control the events for each selection I make from within Design view. For instance, I have a drop down menu that has Enabled and Disabled. How would I set an action for each when clicked?

Answer 7

Well, I'm wondering how I control the events for each selection I make from within Design view. For instance, I have a drop down menu that has Enabled and Disabled. How would I set an action for each when clicked?

Hi,

 A disabled item will not raise an event. You would have to try doing some sort of long work around to try doing that and i am not sure rite off hand without a bit of playing around how you would even do that. Of coarse, maybe i am just not understanding what your trying to do. Perhaps someone else will understand and be able to answer this.   :)

Answer 8

Edit: I'll start a  new question.

I didn't mean like literally disabled. Disabled has nothing to do with disabling the drop down menu or controls. Here's a better view of what I mean...

I have two options: Enabled and Disabled. Each option runs a VB Script. One VB Script enables something, the other disables what the Enable option enabled. Again, I simply want to know how to create an event for each selection (Similar to and If Else statement). So far I can only see how to give an event when the index changes (or a change occurs).

I guess I'm confused on how it "knows" or distinguishes the difference between the first selection and the second. You know with If Else statements, you give it a condition such as...

If x=1 Then
Wscript.Echo "Run the enable VB Script file."

Else
Wscript.Echo "Run the disable VB Script file."
End If

The same would go for this drop down menu. How does it function according to this logic? But of course in terms of Designer not so much direct coding.

Answer 9

Each MenuItem that you double click on in the control will create it's own event handler. So say you double click the "Enabled" item, you will be shown something similar to the following.

    Private Sub EnabledToolStripMenuItem_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles EnabledToolStripMenuItem.Click

    End Sub

Then for the "Disabled" item,

    Private Sub DisabledToolStripMenuItem_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles DisabledToolStripMenuItem.Click

    End Sub

Then, after the Private Sub .... but, before the End Sub add your code to execute the script files. Something similar to

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:\vbscriptfile.vbs")

Answer 10

Hi tyler,

 I think i might understand what you mean now. You want to be able to  tell if an option has been enabled or disabled on the actual menu item. You could set the CheckOnClick property of the menu item to True. That will show a check mark on the menu item if they have Disabled or Enabled that option. Here is an example

 I added an item to the a menustrip and named it Option1_ToolStripMenuItem

Public Class Form1

    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        Option1_ToolStripMenuItem.CheckOnClick = True
    End Sub

    Private Sub Option1_ToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Option1_ToolStripMenuItem.Click
        If Option1_ToolStripMenuItem.Checked Then
            MessageBox.Show("Run script to enable option 1")
        Else
            MessageBox.Show("Run script to disable option 1")
        End If
    End Sub

End Class

 I set the CheckOnClick = True in the Form Load event but, you can set it in the MenuItem`s properties on the Design window if you want.   :)