How to get the item right clicked on from ContextMenuStrip?

Question

I have a PictureBox.

If I right click the PictureBox, my ContextMenuStrip (right click menu) appears.

In that ContextMenuStrip is a ToolStripMenuItem (one of the options in the right click menu).

There is an event on the ToolStripMenuItem that handles what happens if that option is clicked.

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We're starting from ToolStripMenuItem's "Clicked" function. I need to somehow get back to the PictureBox programmatically. From there, I can modify the PictureBox.

ToolStripMenuItem -> ContextMenuStrip -> PictureBox

How would I go about this?

Answer 1

If the click event handler for your menu item is named OnToolStripMenuItemClick, the following might be an approach to your problem:

private void OnToolStripMenuItemClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    var menuItem = sender as ToolStripMenuItem;
    var contextMenu = menuItem.Parent as ContextMenuStrip;
    var pictureBox = contextMenu.SourceControl;
}

Of course, don't forget to check for null when accessing properties after conversion with as.