VS2008 C# right click

Thanks Frogleg and Vulpes,

With your kind help I managed to get what I wanted, and could add more functionality to my RichTextBox Right-click.

It seems somewhat cumbersome, but eventually it runs.

By the way, the MSDN does not refer at all to the VS version, but rather to the .NET framework version, which, in this case can be 3.5 or 4.0

RichTextBox Overview

Thanks all for your kind and persistence support,

Sam

Hello Frogleg,

Thanks for your reply.
As I wrote, the MSDN states that a rich text box has a right click menu by default, (yes, also in VS2008) which does not seem to be the case, but this is probably MS to blame for.

Nevertheless, I tried your proposal as is, but I think your example is not complete (assuming I know all the rest? No, I do not!).
I could not see how you initialize the new components (like bttnCut. etc).

To make it work, I copied the initializations manually one by one from your previous example (which is probably VS2010 and will not run on my 2008), the program compiles OK, and works, but this is not the way to go.

In the Rich text box contextMenuStrip properties there are many options to set, but I assume there is a default that makes it work as-is.

Can you please elaborate and send the whole picture?
There must be a 'clean' way of doing it, without the risky copy.

I found out that many people consider the right-click as a difficult issue. (I can make a simple right-click method that can do anything, but this is not what I am looking for)

Thanks again, sam.

I just realised you are using vs 2008
Drag a context menu onto the form from the toolbox
Add three menu items as below
In richtextbox properties assign contectmenu1
here is code


    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void bttnCut_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(richTextBox1.SelectedText))
            {
                return;
            }
            Clipboard.SetText(richTextBox1.SelectedText);
            richTextBox1.SelectedText = string.Empty;
           // Clipboard.SetDataObject(objects);


        }

        private void bttnCopy_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(richTextBox1.SelectedText))
            {
                return;
            }
            Clipboard.SetText(richTextBox1.SelectedText);
        }

        private void bttnPaste_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            richTextBox1.SelectedText = Clipboard.GetText();
        }
    }
}