Adding new menu item to already merged menus.

[Andrew Skalkin]

Hello,

I can''t figure out how to properly dynamically add main form''s top-level menu items in my MDI application.

The problem would be best demonstrated with the example below:

public MainForm()
{
InitializeComponent();
mainFrameBarManager.RegisterMdiChildTypes(new Type[] {typeof(View)});

// now, I want to dynamically add main form''s top-level menu.
// the following code produces no effect if it is executed after the call to RegisterMdiChildTypes.
ParentBarItem pbi = new ParentBarItem();
mainFrameBarManager.Items.Add(pbi);
mainMenu.Items.Insert(mainMenu.Items.Count - 1, pbi);
}

[Andrew Skalkin]

The (ugly) way around the problem is creating a number of dummy invisible menu items before the call to RegisterMdiChildTypes and reusing them when needed... This is what I do at the moment but it seriously hurts my aestethic feelings :)

[Administrator]

Hi Andrew, In a MDI scenario, you should always add the BarItems to the merged Bar''s Items collection and not to the original Bar''s Items collection as shown in code below : this.mainFrameBarManager1.GetMergedEquivalent(this.bar1, this.bar1).Items.Add(pbitem); Please refer to the test sample that illustrates this and let me know if it helps. Regards, Guru Patwal Syncfusion,Inc.