Context Menu determine which control was Right-Clicked

[bortiquai]

I have a form with several multiline Text Boxes. I would like to add a right click function that adds the current date at the current position, where the user might be typing.

However, as soon as you right click and trigger the contextmenuitem.Click event, the textbox no longer has focus. How can i determine which textbox had focus, and where the cursor position was, so that I can add the date at that spot?
Thanks

 

[JohnH]

ContextMenuStrip has the SourceControl property for this.

Private Sub InsertDateToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _
Handles InsertDateToolStripMenuItem.Click
    Dim tb As TextBox = ContextMenuStrip1.SourceControl
    tb.SelectedText = Date.Now.ToShortDateString
End Sub

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

John, wouldn't you simply want to append the text?

tb.AppendText(Date.Now.ToShortDateString)

 

[JohnH]

John, wouldn't you simply want to append the text?

that would add date at the end of the text, OP wanted to insert at cursor point.

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

that would add date at the end of the text, OP wanted to insert at cursor point.

didn't see that, oops