Need event when menu item is selected (not clicked)

[SoftCircuits]

I've been working with the new WinForms code. I know the work is ongoing, so I've been avoiding posting all the issues I'm running into. I can if anyone wants. Right now, it seems somewhat slow, unstable and buggy.

But I do have a feature request that is sorely needed: We have an event when menu items are clicked. But there is no event for when menu items are selected. I think this should be added.

I would like to display a description of the selected menu command in the status bar. This is proving extremely difficult without an event for when menu items are selected. I tried using WndProc to capture the WM_MENUSELECT message. But apparently, WinForms doesn't use standard menus and that message is never sent.

I also tried an approach that involves setting the MouseEnter and MouseLeave event handlers for every menu. I got this working when menu items are selected by the mouse. But I have yet to find a way to do this when a menu item is selected using the keyboard.

It seems like this event wouldn't be hard to add. I really don't understand why it hasn't been added before.

Side Note: If I ever find a way to do this, I thought it might be nice to store the text to be displayed in the menu item's ToolTipText property. However, my testing indicates setting this property causes a tool tip to appear (which I wouldn't want if I displayed that text in the status bar). Unfortunately, the ShowItemToolTips property seems to have no bearing on this. (Those tooltips still show after setting that property to false.)