Being a lazy programmer, I rarely write something twice. One instance of this was when I wanted to put items from a drop-down menu into a context menu but I didn’t want to copy them manually and attach to the same methods because I didn’t want to update the context menu every time that drop-down menu changed manually. So, I researched the web to see what the best way was to copy the drop-down menu items I wanted dynamically when my application loaded and still use the existing methods. As you can imagine, I found numerous ways of accomplishing the task. I picked the following method because it was the simplest. Obviously, it is not the only way but I thought it would be helpful to others if shared it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let’s say I have a drop-down menu (or any menu) that looks like the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n And I have a context menu that looks like the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n And I want to copy the items from the drop-down menu to the context menu after the separator when the application loads. I also do not want to rewrite the methods for the items in the drop-down menu.<\/p>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.vscrypt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2017-02-07_13-00-29.jpg\")
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