Change the Behavior of the Standard Menu Items
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Change the Behavior of the Standard Menu Items
Clicking any default item within the standard context menus fires the TreeList.TreeListMenuItemClick event. This event lets you cancel the default actions, or provide your own item handling.
When handling this event, you need to set the event’s Handled parameter to true or false. Setting this parameter to true indicates that you’ve handled this event, and no default processing is required. If the Handled parameter is set to false, the default actions will be performed immediately after your event handler.
Example
The following sample code changes the behavior of the Sort Ascending and Sort Descending items of the column header menu. These items no longer clear previously applied sorting. End-users can easily sort nodes by multiple columns.
In the example, the TreeList.TreeListMenuItemClick event is handled to clear the existing sorting, before the column values are sorted.
using DevExpress.XtraTreeList.Columns;
using DevExpress.XtraTreeList;
//...
private void treeList1_TreeListMenuItemClick(object sender, TreeListMenuItemClickEventArgs e) {
if(e.IsFooter) return;
TreeList tl = (sender as TreeList);
if(e.MenuItem.Caption == "Sort Ascending" || e.MenuItem.Caption == "Sort Descending") {
tl.ClearSorting();
if(e.MenuItem.Caption == "Sort Ascending")
e.Column.SortOrder = SortOrder.Ascending;
else
e.Column.SortOrder = SortOrder.Descending;
e.Handled = true;
}
}