How to get Second and Third level Menu Item in C# MDI Form

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I am trying to access the Level2 and Level 3 Menu Item of the MDI form how can I do that??

Here is my Menu Structure

MAIN MENU 
              SUB MENU -> Level 2 Menu1
         SUB MENU 2  -> Level 2 Menu1 --> Level3 Menu1

I want to get Menu text of Sub Menu -> Level 2 Menu -> Level 2 Menu1 -> Level 3 Menu

I have tried to iterate through all the MenuStrip menu, ToolStripMenuItem and ToolStrip Items but I can only get the menus till SubMenu I cant reach till Level2 or Level2 Menu. Below is the code I have used

C#

foreach (Control ctrl in coll)
{
   MenuStrip menustrip = ctrl as MenuStrip;

   if (ctrl.Text == "MenuStrip")
   {
      foreach (ToolStripMenuItem toolstripmenuitem in menustrip.Items)
      {
         foreach (ToolStripItem toolstripmenuitem in toolscriptmenuitem.DropDownItems)
         {
            MessageBox.Show(toolstripmenuitem.Text);
         }
      }
   }
}

I am using C# Windows Form Application MDI Form.

Please help.

Thanks Ankit Roy

Posted 18-Apr-15 7:10am

Ankit Roy

Updated 18-Apr-15 12:07pm

Nelek

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BillWoodruff · Answer 1 · 2015-04-18T07:47:00

Solution 1

You need to use recursion here:

C#

public void GetMenuItems(ToolStripItemCollection menuItems)
{
    foreach (ToolStripMenuItem itm in menuItems)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(itm.Text);

        if (itm.HasDropDown)
        {
            GetMenuItems(itm.DropDownItems);
        }
    }
}

Posted 18-Apr-15 7:47am

BillWoodruff

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Ankit Roy 24-Apr-15 4:28am

Thanks Bill
But I still not able to get the menu Items. Can explain little more.

Thanks