How : Word is selected in RichTextBox and Right-clicked then shown in ContextMenu

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Hello Brothers, Programmer, Master.

Please help me... Let me learn by your example. :)

Description :
The word are shown in a popup when a word is selected and right-clicked.
For example,
INPUT : "Barcelona is my favorite football club".

After I selected the word "football", then the right-clicked and the word are shown in a popup menu "This is football".

When I clicked those word in popup menu, it will replace the word in INPUT
with the word in pop up menu, like this example.

OUTPUT : Barcelona is my favorite This is football club."

Please.. help me.

Here the code

C#

ContextMenu contextMenu = new ContextMenu();
private EventHandler menuHandler;

public Form1()
{
    InitializeComponent();
    menuHandler = new System.EventHandler(this.Menu_Click);// what's menu_click?
}

private void Menu_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    richTextBox1.SelectionFont = new Font("Times New Roman", 12);
    richTextBox1.SelectionColor = Color.Black;

    richTextBox1.SelectedText = ((MenuItem)sender).Text;
}

private void richTextBox1_MouseDown(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
   try
   {
      if (e.Button == MouseButtons.Right)
      {
         Point point = new Point(e.X, e.Y);
         int index = richTextBox1.GetCharIndexFromPosition(point);
         textBox1.Text = Convert.ToString(index);

         int length = 1;

         if (!Char.IsWhiteSpace(richTextBox1.Text[index]))
         {
             while (index > 0 && !Char.IsWhiteSpace(richTextBox1.Text[index - 1]))
             { index--; length++; }

              while (index + length < richTextBox1.Text.Length &&
                  !Char.IsWhiteSpace(richTextBox1.Text[index + length]) &&
                  (!Char.IsPunctuation(richTextBox1.Text[index + length]) ||
                  richTextBox1.Text[index + length] == Char.Parse("'"))
              ) length++;

              richTextBox1.SelectionStart = index;
              richTextBox1.SelectionLength = length;
              contextMenu.MenuItems.Clear(); // error here
              contextMenu.MenuItems.Add("This is "+richTextBox1.SelectedText, menuHandler); //error here
             //What's next Sir?
             }
         }
     }
  }

Posted 15-Mar-13 2:13am

Berry Harahap

Updated 15-Mar-13 18:33pm

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Jegan Thiyagesan 15-Mar-13 8:22am

Sounds like this is your homework!
anyhow,
what have you searched for?
What have you tried?
where did you got stuck?
Show us your code fragments.

Berry Harahap 15-Mar-13 8:57am

@Jegan Thiyagesan
I've search for toolTip, but it just show information, can't be clicked.
Then, I'm conceiving ContextMenuStrip. I'm not good at ContextMenuStrip, I need suggestion Sir.
If you have reference, please give me. :) :) :) Nice.
Cheers

Jegan Thiyagesan 19-Mar-13 9:24am

you can always use a label instead of tool tip or context menu. The label can displayed your selected text as well as it can take mouse click event.

So
Label lbl = new Label();
lbl.width = 100;
lbl.Height = 50;
lbl.Location = new Point(richTextBox1.Location.X + 100, richTextBox1.Location.Y + 100);
lbl.Click += button_Click;
lbl.Visible = false;
lbl.SentToBack();
private void richTextBox1_SelectionChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (richTextBox1.SelectedText.Length > 0)
{
// do your football comparison
// then
if (football)
{
lbl.Text = "this is football";
lbl.Visible = true;
lbl.BringToFront();
}
}
}

void button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
lbl.Visible = false;
lbl.SentToBack();
richTextBox1.Text = richTextBox1.Text.Replace("football", "This is football"); // set or append the text here.

// also get the index and the length of "this is football", change the font if you want.
}

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CHill60 · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-15T03:07:00

You really should try using Google or Yahoo or any other search engine.
However here is a step by step guide to setting up a context menu
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/uploadfile/mahesh/context-menu-in-C-Sharp/[^]
And to be on the safe side here is some information about RichTextBox http://www.dotnetperls.com/richtextbox[^]

[Edit]
Here is a (probably) better solution. On my form I have a RichTextBox (richTextBox1) into which I have placed some text. and a TextBox (textBox1) into which I have also typed some text. I highlight some text in richTextBox1 and use mouse-right-click to show the context menu. When I click on the menu it replaces the selected text with the words from the menu item.

private void DefineYourMenu()
 {
     // Set up a context menu item as the text from the text box
     ContextMenu Contextmenu1 = new ContextMenu();
     MenuItem menuItem1 = new MenuItem(this.textBox1.Text);
     // You need to add a handler for the click event on the menu item
     menuItem1.Click += menuItem1_Click;

     // Add the new menu item to the context menu
     Contextmenu1.MenuItems.Add(menuItem1);
     // "attach" this context menu to the richtext box
     richTextBox1.ContextMenu = Contextmenu1;
 }
 private void menuItem1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
 {
     // Replace the highlighted text with the menu option selected
     richTextBox1.Text = richTextBox1.Text.Replace(richTextBox1.SelectedText.Trim(), ((MenuItem)sender).Text);
 }
 private void richTextBox1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
 {
     // This is as convenient a place as any to set up the menu
     DefineYourMenu();
 }

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