Merging MenuStrips

Hi,

I have some troubles with merging MenuStrips. My Application has an MDI Parent form and some MDI children forms.

The menu in the parent form looks like

File
New
    Project
Open
Exit

if no MDI children form is open.

The menu for the children forms should look like

File
New
    ObjectType #1
    ObjectType #2
    ObjectType #3
Save
Save as
Close

What I want is that the MDI parent menu looks like this, when a MDI child form is open:

File
New
    Project
    ObjectType #1
    ObjectType #2
    ObjectType #3
Save
Save as
Close
Exit

I read the thread http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=11000&SiteID=1 carefully and I am able to merge the menuitems on "the first level", but I am not able to merge the menuitems below the "New" menuitem.

At the moment my menu looks like:

File
New
    Project
New
    ObjectType #1
    ObjectType #2
    ObjectType #3
Save
Save as
Close
Exit

My menu settings for merging are:

MDI parent menu:

File (merge action = append)
New (merge action = append)
    Project (merge action = append)
Open (merge action = append)
Exit (merge action = append)

MDI child menu:

File (merge action = match only)
New (merge action = insert)
    ObjectType #1 (merge action = append)
    ObjectType #2 (merge action = append)
    ObjectType #3 (merge action = append)
Save (merge action = insert)
Save as (merge action = insert)
Close (merge action = insert)

So, does anybody know what I am doing wrong

Thanks!

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Merging MenuStrips

pgiuseppe
The problem seems to be your "New" in the MDI child. You want to set this to MergeAction.MatchOnly so that it will match to the MDI Parent's "New" menu item.

You should use MergeAction.MatchOnly to replicate the MDI Parent's menu heirarchy and Insert, Append, Remove and Replace to add and remove items to the MDI Parent's menu.

Jessica
Merging MenuStrips

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