How to enumerate the sub-items of menuStrip to merge the following two foreach loops into one foreach loop?

Question

Dear All,

The application is a demo of change multilingual when button is pressed.

The Fig.1 is the layout of Windows Form application and Fig.2 is the layout viewed by document outline.

From the document outline, we have two major control, one is tab control which contain some buttons.

And one menuStrip control.

The buttons are contained in the tab control. There is a ChangeControlTextRecursive() method to handle this.

To the menuStrip which contain two ToolStripMenuItems, toolStripMenuItem1 and languageStripMenuItem. Some ToolStripMenuItems are contained to toolStripMenuItem1 and languageStripMenuItem.

How to enumerate the sub-items of menuStrip to merge the following two foreach block into one foreach?

Thanks and Best regards,

E-John

Fig.1 Windows Form layout

Fig.2 Windows Form layout viewed by document outline

        public void ChangeControlTextRecursive(ComponentResourceManager resources, CultureInfo cult, Control control)
        {
            if (control.Controls.Count != 0)
            {
                foreach (Control ctrl in control.Controls)
                {
                    resources.ApplyResources(ctrl, ctrl.Name, cult);

                    ChangeControlTextRecursive(resources, cult, ctrl);
                }
            }
        }

        private void LoadApplicationUI(string cultureCode)
        {
            ComponentResourceManager resourcesss = new ComponentResourceManager(typeof(Form1));
            CultureInfo cult = new CultureInfo(cultureCode);

            // tab page
            foreach (Control control in this.Controls)
            {
                resourcesss.ApplyResources(control, control.Name, cult);

                ChangeControlTextRecursive(resourcesss, cult, control);
            }

            // toolStripMenuItem1
            for (int i = 0; i < toolStripMenuItem1.DropDownItems.Count; i++)
            {
                resourcesss.ApplyResources(toolStripMenuItem1.DropDownItems[i],
                                           toolStripMenuItem1.DropDownItems[i].Name,
                                           cult);
            }

            // languageToolStripMenuItem
            for (int i = 0; i < languageToolStripMenuItem.DropDownItems.Count; i++)
            {
                resourcesss.ApplyResources(languageToolStripMenuItem.DropDownItems[i],
                                           languageToolStripMenuItem.DropDownItems[i].Name,
                                           cult);
            }
        }

        private void englishToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            neutralCulture = "en";
            LoadApplicationUI(neutralCulture);
        }

        private void chineseTraditionalToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            neutralCulture = "zh-Hant";
            LoadApplicationUI(neutralCulture);
        }

Answer 1

Greetings E-John.

Do you mean like this? (Assuming you meant 'for loops' not 'foreach loops'.)

         foreach (ToolStripMenuItem topLevelItem in MenuStrip.Items)
         {
            foreach (ToolStripMenuItem item in topLevelItem.DropDownItems)
            {
               // Do your stuff here.
            }
         }

DropDownItems can have their own DropDownItems, so you should probably make the inner loop recursive, but that's the idea.

Answer 2

Dear Ante,

Do you mean like this? (Assuming you meant 'for loops' not 'foreach loops'.)

---> Yes.

It works after applying provided code. Thanks for your helps.

Best regards,

E-John

            foreach (ToolStripMenuItem topLevelItem in menuStrip1.Items)
            {
                resourcesss.ApplyResources(topLevelItem, topLevelItem.Name, cult);

                foreach (ToolStripMenuItem item in topLevelItem.DropDownItems)
                {
                    resourcesss.ApplyResources(item, item.Name, cult);
                }
            }