this.MainMenuStrip

[Juan Pablo]

Hello ...

Look, I'm changing by code the UI of an application. It's almost done, but there is the main menu of the main form.

The main form is a Telerik's ShapedForm.

Most of the menu items are enabled, disabled, visible or invisible according of some conditions, and this behavior is done through some classes.

My question is this:

When I have the windows form standard menu, it is assigned like this:

this.MainMenuStrip = this.mainMenuStrip;

But when mainMenuStrip is a Telerik RadMenu I'm getting an error that says that it is not possible to convert implicitly from the telerik type to the windows type. And when i do a cast I get a message that you can't convert to the windows type.

This is a very complex application, and I can't change the type of the form.

Thanks for your help!

[Jack]

Hello Juan Pablo,

Thank you for contacting us.

The MainMenuStrip property is used mainly to manage keyboard shortcuts in Microsoft's MenuStrip and to implement MDI menu merge. RadMenu inherits RadControl instead of MenuStrip and it is not possible to assign the MainMenuStrip property with it. Nevertheless, RadMenu contains its own keyboard management which is independent from the Form. As to the MDI menu merge, it is currently not supported in RadMenu. We plan to implement this feature in one of our upcoming releases.

Do not hesitate to write me back, if you have any other questions.

Sincerely yours,
Jack
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[Juan Pablo]

Thanks for your answer.

Is there any workaround?
I really need to implement the menu.

[Jack]

Hi Juan,

Thank you for writing us back.

It is not possible to assign the RadMenu to the MainMenuStrip property. However, I will be glad to help you with the UI transition process. Could you, please specify why you need to do this? Maybe, we could find a better solution.

Feel free to write us, if you have further questions.

Regards,
Jack
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[Juan Pablo]

Thanks for your answer.

Now I have a default windows control menu in my application, and the menu items have a defined background. But I can't control how it looks when an item hovers or clicks it because it takes the default Windows theme.

That's the reason why I need to use a Telerik menú, because it's easy to create a theme and assign it to the control.

I hope you can help me.

[Jack]

Hi Juan,

You need just to add a RadMenu control to your form and dock it at top of the form. There is no need to set the MainMenuStrip property. If you need some specific behavior, please send me your application and I will try to find the best solution for your case.

Should you have further questions, I will be glad to help you.

Regards,
Jack
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[Martin Lundgard]

When using the System.Windows.Forms.MenuStrip you get the possibility to set MdiWindowListItem. When you cannot use RadMenu as MainMenuStrip, you do not. How do you go about having a MdiWindowListItem in the RadMenu?

[Deyan]

Hello Arve,

Thanks for contacting us and for your question. Please, take a look at the our documentation regarding this topic:

MDI List in RadMenu

Please note, that this feature is available since Q2 2009. If you are using an older version of RadControls for WinForms, this feature will not be available.

Kind regards,
Deyan
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[Manesh]

I had 9 items in the menu and programmatic-ally set the visiblity = false to some items and when the window opened items got disabled but the visibled items are remained on the same place they haven't got arranged please click the image below and reply me urgently please

[Stefan]

Hello Manesh,

Thank you for writing.

The Visibility property of RadMenuItem does not have an option "false". You can set one of the ElementVisibility's options - Visible, Collapsed, Hidden. If you set the Visibility to Hidden, the item space will remain reserved, and just the item will not be visible. If you want to collapse the item's space, use the Collapsed option:

radMenu1.Items[1].Visibility = ElementVisibility.Collapsed;

Off topic, please note that this thread concerns the Mdi List support of RadMenu and your question is not related to it. Please try to either find a suitable thread to post your question in or open a new thread of you cannot find one. This way it will be easier for the community to quickly find the answers needed.

I hope that you find this information useful.
 
Regards,
Stefan
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[Gaurav]

Hi @stefan,

Is this possible now?

To assign RadMenu to MainMenuStrip?

[Dinko | Tech Support Engineer]

Hi Gaurav,

RadMenu from the Telerik UI for WinForms suite has a different internal implementation than the MS MenuStrip. So it is not possible to assign RadMenu to MainMenuStrip.

RadMenuItem(s) have a Boolean property called MdiList. If it is set to true, the item is in the first level of the hierarchy, and the item is located in a parent MDI form, this item becomes an MDI list for the application. This means that all child MDI forms will appear in it as items and a click on such item activates the corresponding form: MDI LIST  

RadMenu also supports menu merging: Menu Merge in MDI Applications