This is a small walkthrough on how to use Crad's Actions. Well... we start creating a new WindowsApplication
Project in Visual Studio (for this tutorial I've chosen Visual C# Express
Edition) and add an ActionList to the main form.
Next, we can modify its Actions property adding our first
Action object.
In this example, I created a "New" action, giving its Text and Image properties
(more featured properties are coming... 
) the right values.
Now that we've got actNew object
on our form, we can handle its Execute event, for example:
private void actNew_Execute(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show("Congratulations, you just executed \"New\" action");
}
Next, we create a
ToolStrip and a MenuStrip and we add some buttons and menuitem.
Next step is linking actNew
to these Items: you can connect it to a Button, a MenuItem, a ToolStripMenuItem or
to a ToolStripButton as well. Notice that when you associate actNew to a
UI element, it's Text and Image properties (if applicable) are automatically set to action's
ones.
We can do the same for the ToolStripButton. Now if you build and execute the
project, you'll notice that the action's Execute handler will be performed when
you select "New" via toolbar or via MainMenu. But if you want to enable or
disable this controls when a certain condition is verified? You can use actNew's
Update event: for example... we add a checkBox and the
following handler for this event:
private void actNew_Update(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
actNew.Enabled = checkBox1.Checked;
}
The actNew_Update event handler is evaluated while application is on Idle
state; when an action is disabled, so are all the controls linked to
it.Moreover, you can use the ActionList's Enabled property to
enable/disable all the actions of a form. Same is for Action's Checked
property: every state change is forwarded to all the linked controls.
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