Find item by text

[StrandedPirate]

I'm sure this has been asked before but I couldn't find it; ironic. How do I find the RadMenuItem for a RadContextMenu by the text displayed in it's header?

My RadContextMenu is not data bound its simply static xaml markup.

[Hristo]

Hi Joey,

If you menu is not bound then all you have to do is to enumerate the Items property, cast the objects to RadMenuItem and then cast the Header property to string.

Let us know if you need more information.

Greetings,
Hristo
the Telerik team

[StrandedPirate]

I was hoping this API of yours had this basic service baked into a method already. Since it doesn't here's my vote of one for it to be added.

[StrandedPirate]

For anyone who wants to add this functionality to both menu types from Telerik. Note: this only works for non-databound menu's.

    public static class RadMenuExtensions

    {

        /// <summary>

        /// Finds an item by its text.

        /// </summary>

        /// <param name="menu">The menu.</param>

        /// <param name="text">The text.</param>

        /// <returns></returns>

        public static RadMenuItem FindByText(this MenuBase menu, string text)

        {

            RadMenuItem foundItem = null;

            foreach (RadMenuItem item in menu.Items)

            {

                // watch out for seperators with null headers

                if (item.Header != null)

                {

                    if (item.Header.ToString().ToLowerInvariant().Equals(text.ToLowerInvariant()))

                        foundItem = item;

                }

            }

            return foundItem;

        }

    }

[Hristo]

Hello Joey,

This is the modified code so that it will work with bound menu too:

public static class RadMenuExtensions
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Finds an item by its text.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="menu">The menu.</param>
    /// <param name="text">The text.</param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static RadMenuItem FindByText(this MenuBase menu, string text)
    {
        RadMenuItem foundItem = null;

        foreach (object item in menu.Items)
        {
            RadMenuItem menuItem = menu.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromItem(item) as RadMenuItem;
            string header = Convert.ToString(menuItem.Header);

            if (header.ToLowerInvariant().Equals(text.ToLowerInvariant()))
            {
                foundItem = menuItem;
                break;
            }
        }

        return foundItem;
    }
}

I hope that this will help you.

All the best,
Hristo
the Telerik team