TreeView as vertical menu - how to get name of associated MenuItem

Question

I am working on changing TMainMenu to TTreeView i.e.vertical menu. I am able to create the TTreeView and by calling AddChildObject() I have Node.Data.

I was able to call the OnClick event of an associated MenuItem using TMenuItem(TreeView1.Selected.Data).Click.

How to get the name of the associated MenuItem?

I tried TMenuItem(TreeView.Selected.Data).Name, but the Name shows as an empty string.

procedure TForm1.TreeViewClick(Sender: TObject);
begin
  if Assigned ((Sender as TTreeView).Selected) then 
  begin
    TMenuItem ((Sender as TTreeView).Selected.Data).Click;
    // this works fine i.e. on node click specific menuitem click is called
    
    TMenuItem ((Sender as TTreeView).Selected.Data).Name;
    // Name is empty inspite of menuitem name being not empty
  end;
end;

Code for populating the TreeView:

procedure CopyMenuToTreeView( aMenu: TMenu; aTreeview: TTreeView );
  procedure AddItems( anItem: TMenuItem; aParentNode: TTreeNode );
  var
    node: TTreeNode;
    i: Integer;
    begin
      for i := 0 To anItem.Count -1 do begin
      node := aTreeView.Items.AddChildObject(
        aParentNode,
        anItem.Items[i].Caption );
      AddItems( anItem.Items[i], node );
    end;
  end;
begin
  Assert( Assigned( aTreeView ), 'No treeview' );
  aTreeView.Items.BeginUpdate;
  try
    aTreeView.Items.Clear;
    if Assigned( aMenu ) then
      AddItems( aMenu.Items, nil );
    aTreeView.FullExpand;
  finally
    aTreeView.Items.EndUpdate;
  end; { Finally }
end;

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  CopyMenuToTreeview( MainMenu1, TreeView1 );
end;

Also, here is the existing TMenuItem.OnClick:

procedure TForm1.MI_Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  //Common code for many menuitem
  //Code for creating form based on name of menuitem
  CreateMIForm('Frm'+((Sender as TMenuItem). Name));
end;

Answer 1

I have fixed your code - AddChildObject() needs a 3rd argument. In TreeView1Click I used an intermediate variable.

Tested with Delphi 10.4.1.

unit TreeViewMenuDemoMain;
    
interface
    
uses
  Winapi.Windows, Winapi.Messages, System.SysUtils, System.Variants, System.Classes, Vcl.Graphics,
  Vcl.Controls, Vcl.Forms, Vcl.Dialogs, Vcl.StdCtrls, Vcl.Menus, Vcl.ComCtrls;
    
type
  TForm1 = class(TForm)
    TreeView1: TTreeView;
    MainMenu1: TMainMenu;
    File1: TMenuItem;
    Close1: TMenuItem;
    Exit1: TMenuItem;
    Button1: TButton;
    procedure Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
    procedure Close1Click(Sender: TObject);
    procedure Exit1Click(Sender: TObject);
    procedure TreeView1Click(Sender: TObject);
  end;
    
var
  Form1: TForm1;
    
implementation
    
{$R *.dfm}
    
procedure CopyMenuToTreeView( aMenu: TMenu; aTreeView: TTreeView );
  procedure AddItems( anItem: TMenuItem; aParentNode: TTreeNode );
  var
    node: TTreeNode;
    i: Integer;
  begin
    for i := 0 To anItem.Count -1 do begin
      node := aTreeView.Items.AddChildObject(
        aParentNode,
        anItem.Items[i].Caption,
        anItem.Items[i]);
      AddItems( anItem.Items[i], node );
    end;
  end;
begin
  Assert( Assigned( aTreeView ), 'No treeview' );
  aTreeView.Items.BeginUpdate;
  try
    aTreeView.Items.Clear;
    if Assigned( aMenu ) then
      AddItems( aMenu.Items, nil );
    aTreeView.FullExpand;
  finally
    aTreeView.Items.EndUpdate;
  end; { Finally }
end;
    
procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  CopyMenuToTreeView(MainMenu1, TreeView1);
end;
    
procedure TForm1.Close1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  ShowMessage('File/Close');
end;
    
procedure TForm1.Exit1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  ShowMessage('File/Exit');
end;
    
procedure TForm1.TreeView1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
  MenuItem : TMenuItem;
begin
  if Assigned ((Sender as TTreeView).Selected) then begin
    MenuItem := TMenuItem((Sender as TTreeView).Selected.Data);
    MenuItem.Click;
    // this works fine i.e. on node click specific menuitem click is called
    
    ShowMessage(MenuItem.Name);
  end;
end;
    
end.

DFM file:

object Form1: TForm1
  Left = 0
  Top = 0
  Caption = 'Form1'
  ClientHeight = 299
  ClientWidth = 635
  Color = clBtnFace
  Font.Charset = DEFAULT_CHARSET
  Font.Color = clWindowText
  Font.Height = -11
  Font.Name = 'Tahoma'
  Font.Style = []
  Menu = MainMenu1
  OldCreateOrder = False
  PixelsPerInch = 96
  TextHeight = 13
  object TreeView1: TTreeView
    Left = 16
    Top = 24
    Width = 205
    Height = 257
    Indent = 19
    TabOrder = 0
    OnClick = TreeView1Click
  end
  object Button1: TButton
    Left = 280
    Top = 36
    Width = 75
    Height = 25
    Caption = 'Button1'
    TabOrder = 1
    OnClick = Button1Click
  end
  object MainMenu1: TMainMenu
    Left = 364
    Top = 124
    object File1: TMenuItem
      Caption = '&File'
      object Close1: TMenuItem
        Caption = 'Close'
        OnClick = Close1Click
      end
      object Exit1: TMenuItem
        Caption = 'Exit'
        OnClick = Exit1Click
      end
    end
  end
end