ContextMenu, can't use MenuItem by code..

[Kennet]

Hi,

I have a Togglebutton with an Image in a cell that has a Contexmenu that opens when I Left click on tit. That works fine. But I need to set in code "IsEnable" on the MenuItems, but I can't use the MenuItems name, the code cant see / find the element (The name 'menu1' does not exist in the current context).

I used a Togglebutton since I found that to be the easiest way, what I need is an image that will open an ContexMenu on left click.

This How I code in Xaml

<telerik:GridViewColumn Header="Mode"  Width="60" HeaderTextAlignment="Center">
            <telerik:GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
                <DataTemplate>

                    <ToggleButton Name="btnMode" HorizontalAlignment="Center" IsChecked="{Binding IsOpen, ElementName=menuModes, Mode=TwoWay}" Tag="{Binding Id}" Click="btnMode_Click">
                        <Image Source="{Binding ModeImage}"/>
                        <telerik:RadContextMenu.ContextMenu>
                            <telerik:RadContextMenu Name="menuModes" Placement="Bottom">
                                <telerik:RadMenuItem Header="Menu 1" Tag="{Binding Id}"  Name="menu1" Click="menu1_Click"  />
                                <telerik:RadMenuItem Header="Menu 2" Tag="{Binding Id}" Name="menu2" Click="menu2_Click" />
                                <telerik:RadMenuItem Header="Menu 3" Tag="{Binding Id}" Name="menu3" Click="menu3_Click" />
                            </telerik:RadContextMenu>
                        </telerik:RadContextMenu.ContextMenu>
                    </ToggleButton>

                </DataTemplate>
            </telerik:GridViewColumn.CellTemplate>
        </telerik:GridViewColumn>

/Ken

[Yoan]

Hi Ken,

You can subscribe to RadContextMenu's Loaded event and find a RadMenuItem using the ChildrenOfType<> extension method. Please check the following code snippet for a reference:

private void menuModes_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
     {
         var menuItem = (sender as RadContextMenu).ChildrenOfType<RadMenuItem>().Where(m => m.Name == "menu2").FirstOrDefault();
         menuItem.IsEnabled = false;
     }

Moreover, you can check this blog post explaining how to work with the ChildrenOfType<T>() and ParentOfType<T>() extension methods. 

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Yoan
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