Adding Items to NativeMenuBar at Runtime

[samuel-roberts]

I would like to add a menu to my NativeMenuBar from C# code. Below is a simplified snipped of my .axaml file:

<Window Name="MainWindow">
    <NativeMenu.Menu>
        <NativeMenu>
            <NativeMenuItem Header="File">
                <NativeMenuItem.Menu>
                    <NativeMenu>
                        <NativeMenuItem Header="New" Command="{Binding #MainWindow.New}" Gesture="Ctrl+N" />
                        <NativeMenuItem Header="Open" Command="{Binding #MainWindow.Open}" Gesture="Ctrl+O" />
                        <NativeMenuItem Header="Save" Command="{Binding #MainWindow.Save}" Gesture="Ctrl+S" />
                        <NativeMenuItem Header="Save As" Command="{Binding #MainWindow.SaveAs}" />
                    </NativeMenu>
                </NativeMenuItem.Menu>
            </NativeMenuItem>
          </NativeMenu>
    </NativeMenu.Menu>
     
    <DockPanel>
        <NativeMenuBar DockPanel.Dock="Top" x:Name="MenuBar" />
          
            <!-- Rest of code -->
          
    <DockPanel>
</Window>

I'd like to add a new menu alongside "File" containing some options that are populated at runtime. I can find the control with this.FindControl<NativeMenuBar>("MenuBar"); but I have yet to figure out a way of adding items to it. Is it (currently) possible to do this? And if so, how?

Thank you.

[maxkatz6]

What specific issue do you have with updating this menu in runtime? I remember I did it in 0.10.0 just by updating NativeMenu.Items array, and it worked without problems.

[samuel-roberts]

Ah ok, then I guess my question is how do I access the NativeMenu object from the code behind? I can't seem to access it with Find<NativeMenu>() as I can't attach an x:Name to the menu

[maxkatz6]

You can get native menu for from the window object

[maxkatz6]

NativeMenu.GetMenu(window) or something

[samuel-roberts]

Perfect! Thank you!