Programming help: Is this the correct way?

[limsy]

Hi all,

I want to implement a context sensitive contextmenu but am worried I'm doing it all the wrong way.
I'm using Ribbon + Navigator for my project. I have a dropdown button which links to a kryptoncontextmenu which contains quite a few items.
Depending on the current state of my application, I might not want to make all the items in the contextmenu available. What is the best way to go about this?

Currently, my plan is to get the contextmenu done entirely in design time (Ahh... how low I have sunk...) and having all of the items disabled. Depending on my application state, I will programatically enable or disable the menu items. Is this correct? I was hoping there's some way for the contextmenu to watch certain events/properties automatically instead of having me littering enable/disable all over the place. *blush*

Thank you for your time. Any help/info is greatly appreciated.

[Chris Porter]

You might have some luck using the KryptonCommand object to tie certain items together and enable/disable them in a simpler fashion but it probably won't take you all the way.

[Phil Wright]

You should hook into the DropDown event of the ribbon button. It is fired just before the context menu is shown and it allows you to examine and modify the contents of the context menu. So inside the event you would change the enabled state of each menu item to match the correct state you want to show. Then you do not need to keep updating the menu for each state change when the menu is not going to be displayed.

[limsy]

Awesome! Thanks Phil!