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Answered Programmatically select menu item for mvvm prism application

David

Posted on Nov 8, 2011 (permalink)

Hello I have a prism/mvvm style application and am using the RadMenu control. I also have a view/view model pair in one project and another view/view model pair for my RadMenu control in another project. Basically I would like to use the event aggregator to send an event to the view model for the RadMenu (the view model that is paired with the view that the RadMenu sits inside of). So that the RadMenu's view model can notify the RadMenu to switch to a different RadMenuItem programmatically. I think I can use a blend behavior to contain the behavior I'm looking to reproduce, but I cannot find a method in the RadMenu that will allow me to programmatically select a specific menu item.

If the control does not support this now, is there a work around? Thanks.

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Answer Konstantina Konstantina

Posted on Nov 9, 2011 (permalink)

Hello David,

In order to select an item from the RadMenu you have to set its IsCurrent property to True.

Hope this helps.

Best wishes,
Konstantina
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David

Posted on Nov 9, 2011 (permalink)

Thanks for the answer. Also instead of just an overview is there an msdn style reference for this control and all your controls infact. Thanks again.

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David

Posted on Nov 13, 2011 (permalink)

So I tried using the IsCurrent property and it worked, but only the first time. Then it stopped working although by using breakpoints I can see that the code is continueing to run. And what I mean by stopped working is that the desired menu item no longer got highlighted. Here's my code

private bool _commentaryMenuItemIsCurrent;

public bool CommentaryMenuItemIsCurrent

{

    get { return _commentaryMenuItemIsCurrent; }

    set

    {

        _commentaryMenuItemIsCurrent = value;



        if (CommentaryMenuItemIsCurrent)

            ReportsMenuItemIsCurrent = false;



        RaisePropertyChanged("CommentaryMenuItemIsCurrent");

    }

}

<telerik:RadMenu Name="radMenu2" Height="23" VerticalAlignment="Top">

    <telerik:RadMenuItem Header="Commentary" IsCurrent="{Binding CommentaryMenuItemIsCurrent}">

        <TextBlock Text="testing commentary menu item"></TextBlock>

    </telerik:RadMenuItem>

    <telerik:RadMenuItem Header="Reports" IsCurrent="{Binding ReportsMenuItemIsCurrent}"/>



</telerik:RadMenu>

The CommentaryMenuItemIsCurrent property is bound to the IsCurrent property on the radmenuitem. I am using the mvvm pattern.

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David

Posted on Nov 15, 2011 (permalink)

I am trying to have the menu item highlight every time i programmatically set iscurrent. Right now the highlight of the menu item only happens one time. Then it stops happening. So i need the highlight to happen every time i programmatically set iscurrent to true

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