VS2008 C# right click

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Hi I have a strange situation with right-click I have one form upon which I have one text box and one rich textbox (among many other controls). When I right-click the textbox I get a normal menu with copy-paste-delete etc. controls ( I dont remember defining it...). When right-clicking the rich textbox I get nothing. As I wanted also to have right-click on the rich textbox I searched to find how the text box right-click is defined but could not find any sign of it. I compared the properties - found nothing. I searched the entire solution for right-click (searched mouse right click etc.) and could not find any clue where the right-click command and definitions are hidden. It must be defined somewhere but where? Following several tests I found out that text boxes (as well as numeric up-down) will always have right-click menue while rich text boxes will never have one. The MSDN library states the following: By default both TextBox and RichTextBox have a context menu that appears when a user right-clicks inside the control. The context menu allows the user to cut copy or paste Well this seems to be false or have I done something to remoev it?? sam

Vulpes · Answer

I think you'll find that the paragraph you're quoting from MSDN refers to the WPF RichTextBox and not the Windows Forms version. If you need a context menu for the latter then you have to build your own. I only have VS 2010 (and the Express version to boot) but on there if you drag a ContextMenuStrip component onto your form from the ToolBox a box pops up saying 'Type Here'. If you then type on successive lines : Cut Copy and Paste you should find when you scroll through the controls in the Properties Box that 3 new ones have been added: cutToolStripMenuItem copyToolStripMenuItem and pasteToolStripMenuItem. You then need to add a Click eventhandler for each of these controls from the Properties Box and type in the code below: private void cutToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender EventArgs e) { if (richTextBox1.SelectedText != ) richTextBox1.Cut(); } private void copyToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender EventArgs e) { if (richTextBox1.SelectedText != ) richTextBox1.Copy(); } private void pasteToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender EventArgs e) { richTextBox1.Paste(); } Finally in the Properties Box for the RichTextBox itself you need to set its ContextMenuStrip property to contextMenuStrip1 or whatever you've named it. When you right click on the RichTextBox a context menu should then pop up with these 3 options and function as expected.

Sutha Shalini · Answer

its working for single control but I would like to know for multiple controls.How to assign copy paste option for multiple controls. plz help me

Sam · Answer

Thanks Frogleg and Vulpes With your kind help I managed to get what I wanted and could add more functionality to my RichTextBox Right-click. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:Table Normal;mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-parent:;mso-padding-alt:0mm 5.4pt 0mm 5.4pt;mso-para-margin:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman;mso-ansi-language:#0400;mso-fareast-language:#0400;mso-bidi-language:#0400;} It seems somewhat cumbersome but eventually it runs. By the way the MSDN does not refer at all to the VS version but rather to the .NET framework version which in this case can be 3.5 or 4.0 RichTextBox Overview .NET Framework 4 Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:Table Normal;mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-parent:;mso-padding-alt:0mm 5.4pt 0mm 5.4pt;mso-para-margin:0mm;mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman;mso-ansi-language:#0400;mso-fareast-language:#0400;mso-bidi-language:#0400;} Thanks all for your kind and persistence support Sam

Sam · Answer

Hello Frogleg Thanks for your reply. As I wrote the MSDN states that a rich text box has a right click menu by default (yes also in VS2008) which does not seem to be the case but this is probably MS to blame for. Nevertheless I tried your proposal as is but I think your example is not complete (assuming I know all the rest? No I do not!). I could not see how you initialize the new components (like bttnCut. etc). To make it work I copied the initializations manually one by one from your previous example (which is probably VS2010 and will not run on my 2008) the program compiles OK and works but this is not the way to go. In the Rich text box contextMenuStrip properties there are many options to set but I assume there is a default that makes it work as-is. Can you please elaborate and send the whole picture? There must be a 'clean' way of doing it without the risky copy. I found out that many people consider the right-click as a difficult issue. (I can make a simple right-click method that can do anything but this is not what I am looking for) Thanks again sam.

Frogleg · Answer

I just realised you are using vs 2008 Drag a context menu onto the form from the toolbox Add three menu items as below In richtextbox properties assign contectmenu1 here is code public partial class Form1 : Form { public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); } private void bttnCut_Click(object sender EventArgs e) { if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(richTextBox1.SelectedText)) { return; } Clipboard.SetText(richTextBox1.SelectedText); richTextBox1.SelectedText = string.Empty; // Clipboard.SetDataObject(objects); } private void bttnCopy_Click(object sender EventArgs e) { if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(richTextBox1.SelectedText)) { return; } Clipboard.SetText(richTextBox1.SelectedText); } private void bttnPaste_Click(object sender EventArgs e) { richTextBox1.SelectedText = Clipboard.GetText(); } } }

Frogleg · Answer

Look here