Getting the control of a context menu

Question

I have a context menu that looks like this

 A
 |--1
 |--2
 |--3

I need to access the object that the context menu is called from, after selecting 1 2 or 3

meaning if this is a context menu of a textbox1 then I need to access that object, how do I do that?

Forgot to mention, this is a WPF application. so Im using the System.Windows.Controls and the ContextMenu is created programmatically

Answer 1

You can walk up the tree and get the control from the ContextMenu.PlacementTarget, e.g.

private void MenuItem_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    var item = sender as MenuItem;
    while (item.Parent is MenuItem)
    {
        item = (MenuItem)item.Parent;
    }
    var menu = item.Parent as ContextMenu;
    if (menu != null)
    {
        var droidsYouAreLookingFor = menu.PlacementTarget as TextBox;
        //...
    }
}