Print menus recursively (you can amend the code according to your needs of course)
This is the method you would call to get the menus printed indented according to their level in the hierarchy in a console application
PrintMenus(GenerateAllMenus());
private static string menuLevel = string.Empty;
///
/// Prints the menus.
///
/// The menus.
private static void PrintMenus(IEnumerable menus)
{
menuLevel += " ";
foreach (var menu in menus)
{
Console.WriteLine(string.Concat(menuLevel, menu.MenuTitle));
var subMenu = GetSubMenu(menu);
if (subMenu != null)
PrintMenus(subMenu);
}
menuLevel = menuLevel.Substring(0, menuLevel.Length - 5);
}
///
/// Generates all menus.
///
/// GenerateAllMenus()
{
var menus = new List();
var fileMenu = new HeirarchicalMenu
{
MenuTitle = "File",
SubMenus = new List
{
new HeirarchicalMenu
{
MenuTitle = "New",
SubMenus = new List
{
new HeirarchicalMenu
{
MenuTitle = "Class / Hypermodule"
}
}
},
new HeirarchicalMenu
{
MenuTitle = "Open",
SubMenus = new List
{
new HeirarchicalMenu
{
MenuTitle = "Class / Hypermodule",
SubMenus = new List
{
new HeirarchicalMenu
{
MenuTitle = "5th Level",
SubMenus = new List
{
new HeirarchicalMenu
{
MenuTitle = "6th Level",
SubMenus = new List
{
new HeirarchicalMenu
{
MenuTitle = "7th Level"
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
},
new HeirarchicalMenu
{
MenuTitle = "Exit"
}
}
};
menus.Add(fileMenu);
var editMenu = new HeirarchicalMenu
{
MenuTitle = "Edit Menu",
SubMenus = new List
{
new HeirarchicalMenu
{
MenuTitle = "Cut"
},
new HeirarchicalMenu
{
MenuTitle = "Copy",
SubMenus = new List
{
new HeirarchicalMenu
{
MenuTitle = "Deep Copy"
},
new HeirarchicalMenu
{
MenuTitle = "Shallow Copy"
}
}
},
new HeirarchicalMenu
{
MenuTitle = "Paste"
}
}
};
menus.Add(editMenu);
var viewMenu = new HeirarchicalMenu
{
MenuTitle = "View Menu",
SubMenus = new List
{
new HeirarchicalMenu
{
MenuTitle = "Cascade"
},
new HeirarchicalMenu
{
MenuTitle = "Horizontal"
},
new HeirarchicalMenu
{
MenuTitle = "Vertical"
}
}
};
menus.Add(viewMenu);
return menus;
}
///
/// Gets the sub menu.
///
/// The menu.
/// GetSubMenu(HeirarchicalMenu menu)
{
if (menu.SubMenus != null && menu.SubMenus.Count > 0)
return menu.SubMenus;
return null;
}
public class HeirarchicalMenu
{
///
/// Gets or sets the menu title.
///
///
/// The menu title.
///
public string MenuTitle { get; set; }
///
/// Gets or sets the sub menus.
///
///
/// The sub menus.
///
public List SubMenus { get; set; }
///
/// Initializes a new instance of the class.
///
public HeirarchicalMenu()
{
if (SubMenus == null)
SubMenus = new List();
}
}
///
Hope its helpful.
