How do I enable click for each menu item in context menu in a notify icon?

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I have following objects: notifyIcon1 and contextMenuStrip1.
In the Properties of contextMenuStrip1, under Items, I added two Tool Strip Menu Items:

tsMenuSubscribe

and

tsMenuUnSubscribe

.
I cannot find a click even for individual

Tool Strip Menu Items

.

The event I found is

ontextMenuStrip1_ItemClicked

.
It is not correct because this event is fired irrespective of the click on any Tool Strip Menu Item.
Hence, I need help in differentiating clicks on individual

Tool Strip Menu Item

.

What I have tried:

In below example, I am trying to use the sub menu options that do not work.
 
<pre> private void tsMenuSubscribe_Clicked(object sender, ToolStripItemClickedEventArgs e)
        {
            NCTBuddy n = new NCTBuddy();
            n.ButtonText = "Subscribe";
            n.Show();
           
        }
        private void tsMenuUnSubscribe_Clicked(object sender, ToolStripItemClickedEventArgs e)
        {
            NCTBuddy n = new NCTBuddy();
            n.ButtonText = "UnSubscribe";
            n.Show();
        }


And finally, this is the event that works but do not differentiate which item is clicked in the menu.

        private void contextMenuStrip1_ItemClicked(object sender, ToolStripItemClickedEventArgs e)
        {
         
        }

Posted 22-Mar-17 0:11am

cluelessentity

Updated 22-Mar-17 1:19am

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Solution 1

in Design mode -> right click on tsMenuSubscribe item -> properties -> events -> click event ( double click )

Posted 22-Mar-17 0:28am

Karthik_Mahalingam

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cluelessentity 22-Mar-17 6:36am

@Karthik
Thank you for your comment. But this ain't that simple.
This Menu is not like normal menu. It grows under ContextMenu linked to a NotifyIcon.
That means, on bottom right side of the screen, just next to the battery indicator of any windows laptop, near the clock I have my NotifyIcon. When I right click, it gives two menu items here.

Karthik_Mahalingam 22-Mar-17 6:51am

ok done that too, it works on right clicking the notifiy icon and clicking the menustrip item it went to the event.

cluelessentity 22-Mar-17 7:00am

@Karthik,

There is no right click I can make on the Tool Strip Menu Item.
Like we have collections in a combo-box, the same way I have Tool Strip Menu Items in ContextMenuStrip. So, when I select - right click on ContextMenuStrip, there is a property called Items. When I click on the (Collections) for the Items property, at that time I can add as many Tool Strip MEnu Items as I want but there is no right click on them. Also no events on them.

Karthik_Mahalingam 22-Mar-17 7:05am

so you want a right click on menustrip items?
am not getting clearly, if you could post a screenshot , it would be better
imgur.com

cluelessentity 22-Mar-17 7:06am

Nop.
I can right click on contextMenuStrip.
I want to click on the items under contextMenuStrip that are called Tool Strip Menu Items. And I need to provoke an event and do stuffs in that event when these items are clicked.

Karthik_Mahalingam 22-Mar-17 7:30am

you will have to map the click event to each items in tool strip menu items, which i have mentioned in the solution.

Karthik_Mahalingam 22-Mar-17 8:36am

Check this
http://oi64.tinypic.com/2gy1qtj.jpg

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cluelessentity · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-22T01:19:00

The solution is to mention events in the form load:

tsMenuSubscribe.Click += tsMenuSubscribeClick;
           tsMenuUnsubscribe.Click += tsMenuUnSubscribeClick;

And, describe them anywhere in the code:

private void tsMenuSubscribeClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
       {

           NCTBuddy n = new NCTBuddy();
           n.ButtonText = "Subscribe";
           n.Show();

       }
       private void tsMenuUnSubscribeClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
       {
           NCTBuddy n = new NCTBuddy();
           n.ButtonText = "UnSubscribe";
           n.Show();

       }