![]() (filename)ĪddHandler menu.Click, AddressOf RecentsClickĮnd Sub Private Sub OpenFileDialog1_FileOk( ByVal sender As System.Object, _īyVal e As ) _ĭim dialog As OpenFileDialog = DirectCast(sender, OpenFileDialog) If ( TypeOf sender Is ToolStripMenuItem = False) Then Return Dim menu As ToolStripMenuItem = CType(sender, _Įnd Sub Private Sub AddToRecents( ByVal filename As String) OpenFileDialog1.Filter = "Text Files (*.txt)|*.txt"Įnd Sub Private Function OpenFile( ByVal filename As String) As Integerĭim data As String = File.ReadAllText(filename)Įnd Function Private Sub RecentsClick( ByVal sender As Object, _ OpenFileDialog1.InitialDirectory = "C:TEMP" Private Sub OpenToolStripMenuItem_Click( ByVal sender _ Listing 1: Click Open, select a file, and create a dynamic sub-menu off of the Recent Files menu. When you Open the file, it is read into a TextBox and a dynamic menu is created.įigure 1: A simple text browser containing a multi-line TextBox and a MenuStrip. The code in Listing 1 is plain old vanilla VB.NET code behind a simple form with a File menu, an Open sub-menu, and a Recent Files sub-menu (see Figure 1). The basic behavior is to open a file and create a dynamic sub-menu with the name of the file and add that menu to the MenuStrip. Even Visual Studio tracks open files and projects in “recents” menus. ~wink~ Creating a Recent Submenu with the MenuStrip If you already know how to do all of these things, I won’t mind if you wait for the next article. ![]() It’s also cooler and better housekeeping. After the half-it is football season after all-the dynamic menu is added to a Command class, making the use of this technique a matter of importing the command class in any future application. If you know how to do that, I encourage you to read the article anyway. ![]() In this article, I will show you how to dynamically add ToolStripMenuItems to a MenuStrip. The MenuStrip is like a menu, but if you want to add a sub-menu it’s not as easy as invoking Add with an instance of a menu item. For example, if I have a Menu and it has a collection of element-like sub-menus, I am going to look automatically for a collection property and an add method. Re-inventing the wheel makes sense if you go from a rock wheel to a rubber one, but like things are easier to adopt when they are new if they are used like similar things that exist. I am not just talking about patterns like the Gang of Four GoF patterns I mean simple ways that things work too. Patterns are something we can get familiar with, consequently making like-things anticipatable and easier to use. This requires you to know your menu well, and in what order, but as long as it doesn't change this should work for you.Patterns exist for a reason. If there is no ambiguity (in this case, only one submenu option began with L) it was selected automatically. Another thing to note here is that if you have multiple menu options beginning with the same letter, you may have to send the key more than once to hit the one you want, and then send the enter key. The '%' character is used to represent the 'ALT' key on your keyboard. MyWindow.TypeKeys("l") #Clicks Login Remotely To do this using pywinauto, assuming you already have a reference to the window, you can do so like this: myWindow.SetFocus() If I wanted to click this menu option I would first have to send ALT+S, and then type L. For my specific example, I had a settings option "Settings -> Login Remotely". On windows, the ALT key can be used to access a menu. While an answer has already been posted for an alternative solution, I would like to add a workaround that can be used in pywinauto. ![]() Image of the form on which I tested the code above:Īs you can see, the menuStrip1 is discovered, but I have not found a way to get to its children (Meniu 1, Meniu 2).Īny idea on how to find the menu and its children? ![]() Win32gui.EnumChildWindows(hwnd, getClasses, "a") Hwnd = win32gui.FindWindow(None, 'Form1') #recursive method to get all the controlsĬlasses.append(win32gui.GetWindowText(childHwnd)) I used the code below to try and find the menu. The test is required to access the menu of the application and click on one of the sub menu items. I am using python 3.4 with python for windows extension and pywinauto. I have to build an automation ui test for a WinForms application. ![]()
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