Creating Menus in GUI Design

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What is the primary purpose of using a Menu in an application?

  • To provide a lot of controls on the UI
  • To remove functionalities from the application
  • To provide functionalities without cluttering the UI (correct)
  • To make the UI more difficult to use

How can you add a menu strip to a form?

  • By coding it manually
  • By setting the MainMenuStrip property
  • By using the Windows Forms Designer to create a new menu
  • By dragging a MenuStrip component from the Toolbox (correct)

What is the purpose of the MainMenuStrip property?

  • To set the text of the menu strip
  • To add a ToolStripMenuItem to the menu strip
  • To hide or show a MenuStrip
  • To specify which menu receives shortcut keys (correct)

What type of items can be added to a top-level menu using the Windows Forms Designer?

<p>Several types of toolstrip items, including ToolStripMenuItem, ToolStripComboBox, and ToolStripTextBox (D)</p>
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What is the purpose of the ShortcutKeys property?

<p>To assign a keyboard shortcut to a menu item (C)</p>
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What is the purpose of underlining the subsequent character when including an '&' in a text property?

<p>It provides a visual cue for keyboard menu navigation via the Alt key (B)</p>
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What determines the subset of menu commands displayed in a context menu?

<p>The current activity on the form (A)</p>
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What is the purpose of a Tool Strip?

<p>To provide access to the most commonly used commands (C)</p>
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What is stored in the ContextMenuStrip property?

<p>The context menu of a form (D)</p>
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How do users typically display a context menu?

<p>By clicking the right mouse button (B)</p>
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Study Notes

  • Menus are used to provide functionalities without cluttering the UI.
  • A MenuStrip component can be added to a form by dragging it from the Toolbox.

Building a Menu Strip

  • The MenuStrip Designer allows building a menu strip interactively using its design surface.

Multiple Menu Strips

  • A form can host one or more menu strips, all of which can be visible at run time.
  • A menu strip can be hidden or shown by setting its Visible property.
  • A form's MainMenuStrip property specifies which menu strip receives shortcut keys (Alt+...).
  • The Windows Forms Designer automatically sets MainMenuStrip in InitializeComponent to the first menu strip dropped onto a form.
  • A MenuStrip control can contain zero or more top-level menus via its Items property, which is of type ToolStripItemCollection.
  • The Designer automatically adds a ToolStripMenuItem by default.
  • Other types of toolstrip items can be added, including ToolStripComboBox, ToolStripTextBox, and ToolStripSeparator.
  • Properties of menu strip items include:
    • Checked and CheckOnClick to mark an item as chosen and determine whether it can be checked.
    • Enabled and Visible to determine whether the item can be chosen or whether it will be shown.
    • Image to assign images to strip items.
    • MergeAction and MergeIndex for MDI-related properties.
    • ShortcutKeys to assign a keyboard shortcut to a menu item.
  • The Text property specifies the text shown to the user.
  • Including an "&" (ampersand) in the Text property underlines the subsequent character and provides a visual cue for keyboard menu navigation via the Alt key.
  • TextAlign and TextImageRelation specify text alignment with or without an image.

Context Menu

  • Context menus provide a subset of available menu commands specific to the current activity on a form.
  • Forms and controls can have at most one context menu each, specified by the ContextMenuStrip property.

Tool Strip

  • Tool strips provide quick access to commonly used commands as single-click buttons.
  • They are useful when menu items are deeply hidden within a menu strip hierarchy.

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