XP Menus merging

[Peter]

I have a MDI main form and a treeview as a docked control via the DockManager. Now I want the mdi main to have a menu and the treeview to have a menu and both should be merged to one.

If I have a child form I can have a child menu which is merged with the main menu, but the cild form I can't dock with the docking manager, right? Is there any way for a non-form-derived class to have a child menu and to merge it in the main menu?

Regards
Peter

[Ramesh Praveen]

Peter,

You can associate menu and toolbar items with a TreeControl (or any other control) and then later "import" into into the Form's menu structure, via code. This attached sample shows you how this is done.

Take a look at the sample.txt in the topmost folder.

Regards,
Praveen

[Peter]

If I run your sample, I get a NullReferenceException in code "Me._bars.Add(mainMenuBar)" in the constructor of the BarItemsRepository class.

How can I solve that problem?

[Ramesh Praveen]

Hi,

Could you please attach the whole exception here? Also the version you are testing this against and whether or not this is a licensed version.

The code I attached was for the latest version we have, maybe you have an older version that's not compatible.

Regards,
Praveen

[Peter]

Hi,

I'm using Version 1.5.2.0 and the evaluation copy of the tools. The whole exception info is placed below:

+ [System.NullReferenceException] {System.NullReferenceException} System.NullReferenceException
Object {System.NullReferenceException} Object
_COMPlusExceptionCode &HFFFFFFFFE0434F4D Integer
_className Nothing String
_exceptionMethod Nothing System.Reflection.MethodBase
_exceptionMethodString Nothing String
_message "Der Objektverweis wurde nicht auf eine Objektinstanz festgelegt." String
_innerException Nothing System.Exception
_helpURL Nothing String
+ _stackTrace {System.Array} Object
_stackTraceString Nothing String
_remoteStackTraceString Nothing String
_remoteStackIndex &H0 Integer
_HResult &HFFFFFFFF80004003 Integer
_source Nothing String
_xptrs &H12F260 System.IntPtr
_xcode &HFFFFFFFFC0000005 Integer
Message "Der Objektverweis wurde nicht auf eine Objektinstanz festgelegt." String
InnerException Nothing System.Exception
+ TargetSite {System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo} System.Reflection.MethodBase
StackTrace " at Syncfusion.Windows.Forms.Tools.XPMenus.Bars.Add(Object value)
at XPMenus_ImportingItems.BarItemsRepository..ctor(UserControlWithMenus parent) in E:\Projekte\Samples\MenuMerging\XPMenus_ImportingItems\VB\UserControlWithMenus.vb:line 152" String
HelpLink "" String
Source "Syncfusion.Tools" String
HResult &HFFFFFFFF80004003 Integer

[Ramesh Praveen]

Peter,

This is a problem with the eval version. While our newer licensed versions have been fixed we don't have a newer eval version. So, you might have to wait till you purchase. Or a few more days before we update our eval. I would give it another 1 month for a new eval.

Regards,
Praveen