I have Windows Form TestForm, and in my Form I have several labels that are only used to display some text.
I need to display a MessageBox.Show anytime the Form is clicked. So I have an event handler for the click, which looks like this:
private void TestForm_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show("The form has been clicked");
}
Unfortunately, the click event doesn't fire when I click over a label in the Form. Is there a way to fix this, besides consuming the click event for the labels?
Thanks.
To use the same click event for all labels:
In the properties for each label, go to the Events (lightning bolt tab).
You will see (probably near the top) a label for Click, click the dropdown for this event, and you will be shown a list of handlers that you could use for that label.
Here's the Properties > Events > Click handler (bottom right):
Because all of your labels are of the same type, and produce the same EventArgs, you are able to use the same handler for all of them.
Then, when you are adding more Labels, just choose the event handler from the Click event dropdown:
Hope this helps!
To flesh out LarsTech's comment, I have used something like this in the past when I was having problems with labels overlapping each other and lack of true transparency in WinForms. What I did was make the labels invisible on the Form, then iterate through them in the Form's paint event, pull the information out of them and then use Graphics.DrawString to draw the text. That way you you will still be able see them in design mode.
This is a quick example of what I mean.
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void Form1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
{
foreach (var temp in this.Controls)
{
if (temp is Label) //Verify that control is a label
{
Label lbl =(Label)temp;
e.Graphics.DrawString(lbl.Text, lbl.Font, new SolidBrush(lbl.ForeColor), new Rectangle(lbl.Location, lbl.Size));
}
}
}
private void Form1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show("The Form has been clicked");
}
}
Related
I have a login form. The form has 2 textboxes, and 3 buttons. one button says "Students."
What I want to do is to show a tooltip on this button when the form opens. I dont want to have to go to the button and hover on it in order for it to display. I want the form to load, show the tooltip, and then the tooltip should disappear after 5 seconds. this is what I have tried so far:
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
toolTip.IsBalloon = true;
toolTip.ToolTipIcon = ToolTipIcon.Info;
toolTip.ShowAlways = true;
toolTip.UseFading = true;
toolTip.UseAnimation = true;
toolTip.ToolTipTitle = "Student Mode";
toolTip.Show("You don't have to log in if you are a student. Just click here to go to the questions.", btnStudent);
}
The form's Load event is mis-used far too often. It is here, the event fires before the window becomes visible. Your tooltip is therefore not visible either.
Move your code to a Shown event handler instead. Do favor overriding OnShown() btw, it doesn't make sense for a class to listen to its own events.
protected override void OnShown(EventArgs e) {
base.OnShown(e);
// Your code here
//...
}
I have created a custom XAML UserControl class that I pass to the ShowDialog method. I would like to be able to trigger clicking the OK button on the dialog through other events generated in my UserControl - for example double clicking a ListItem. I have the code to handle the double click just fine (tied into the MouseDown even and checked the click count) but I don't know how to trigger a new event to the parent dialog to close it.
// Bound to TextBlock, part of a ListBox on a UserControl
private void TextBlock_MouseDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
if (e.ClickCount == 2)
{
// trigger dialog to close with OK button
}
}
Make your user control implement IDialogContent. You can then call directly to the CloseDialog event you implemented, and that will trigger the dialog closure.
You will need to decide how you want to handle that in your follow up code by setting some sort of state on your user control/view model or some other data as fits your particular extension.
// Bound to TextBlock, part of a ListBox on a UserControl
private void TextBlock_MouseDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
if (e.ClickCount == 2)
{
CloseDialog(this, EventArgs.Empty);
}
}
This question is related to this my question. Now I have form in my class and when user click on button I show (or hide) form. That´s ok. But I want to hide form when I move with origin form or when I click somewhere in origin form. The new form is behind that origin form. I was trying events like lostfocus and others but It didn´t help. So I think I need some trick that check from my control if there was click in parrent form (origin form) or some other hack. I know the best would be that I put code but I have many lines so I think that best way will be if you help me in general way and then I try to applicate to my app.
You can do it with a global mouse and keyboard hook. In fact, its been wrapped up into well documented, well structured .NET API over at CodePlex
Go over there and download it. Then, set up a global mouse hook:
_mouseListener = new MouseHookListener(new GlobalHooker());
_mouseListener.MouseMove += HandleGlobalHookMouseMove;
_mouseListener.Start();
The key here is that you will receive the MouseMove event ANY time the mouse moves ANYWHERE on the desktop, not just within the bounds of your window.
private void HandleAppHookMouseMove(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
if (this.Bounds.Contains(e.Location))
{
HandleEnter();
}
else
{
HandleLeave();
}
}
You can also setup one for MouseClick. The combination of the two will enable you to determine any time the mouse moves over your origin form, or the mouse is clicked when its over it. Unlike the LostFocus and other events you tried, focus is irrelevant.
Does below help?
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
Form f2 = new Form2();
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
f2.Show();
}
private void Form1_MouseMove(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
if (this.ClientRectangle.Contains(e.Location) && f2.Visible) { f2.Hide(); }
}
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
f2.Visible = !f2.Visible ? true : false;
}
}
I have a problem with MouseEvents on my WinForm C# application. I want to get ALL mouse clicks on my application.
How to determine which control has been clicked ?(I'm beginner C#)
Try this:
private void Control_Clicks(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Control control = (Control)sender; // Sender gives you which control is clicked.
MessageBox.Show(control.Name.ToString());
}
This, this or this may help.
Hope it helps.
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
SetupClickEvents(this);
}
/// <summary>
/// This will loop through each control within the container and add a click handler to it
/// </summary>
/// <param name="container">The container whose children to handle clicks for</param>
private void SetupClickEvents(Control container)
{
foreach(Control control in container.Controls)
{
control.Click += HandleClicks;
}
}
private void HandleClicks(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Control control = (Control)sender;
MessageBox.Show(string.Format("{0} was clicked!", control.Name));
}
If you're doing Windows Forms, you have several options :
Hook mouse event, and after figure out if the clicked component actually makes part of your application
You can declare a base class MyComponent : Control. That component overrides MousClick event and raise a special event notifying about a fact. Every control in your app derive from that control, so every control will notify about click happened on it. It's enough to subcribe
to thier events and process them as requested.
Just a couple of ideas...
You'd have to wire them all up to the same event handler. This can be done in the properties window for the controls in question. You could also write your own function to traverse the control tree and tie the function to each of their event handlers.
You can recursively traverse the Form.Controls collection with a foreach loop.
void attachGlobalHandler(Control aToParse, EventHandler aGlobalHandler)
{
foreach(Control lControl in aToParse.Controls)
{
attachGlobalHandler(lControl, aGlobalHandler);
lControl.Click += aGlobalHandler;
}
}
And then you call that on your form, with the name of the function you want to call:
attachGlobalHandler( Form1, myClickHandler );
And that should tie it to EVERY clickable control on the form. The sender argument of the handler should then always refer to the control that fired the event. That being said, I'd probably just attach individual event handlers, unless you need to treat multiple controls as a group.
WARNING: The code above is untested.
For the second question asked "How to determine which control has been clicked?" each control has events which may be handled in code.
The easiest way to know when a control has been clicked is to attached to the clicked event of a control which is done from the properties for the control. You may have to click the lightning bolt icon to see the events. Double-clicking beside the even will create an empty handler.
For example if you had a simple form with a single button attaching click events to the form and to the button will tell you when there is a click anywhere. In most cases the button click would be the most useful to handle.
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void Form1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
}
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
}
}
It's really simple!
On your click event in your Win-Form, You add
// Here is a modified version of your code:
private void Form1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var control = Form1.ActiveControl;
}
I have a c# form (let's call it MainForm) with a number of custom controls on it. I'd like to have the MainForm.OnClick() method fire anytime someone clicks on the form regardless of whether the click happened on the form or if the click was on one of the custom controls. I'm looking for behavior similar to the KeyPreview feature of forms except for mouse clicks rather than key presses.
I recommend creating a base form for the other forms in your application to inherit. Add this code to your base form to create a new event called GlobalMouseClickEventHandler:
namespace Temp
{
public delegate void GlobalMouseClickEventHander(object sender, MouseEventArgs e);
public partial class TestForm : Form
{
[Category("Action")]
[Description("Fires when any control on the form is clicked.")]
public event GlobalMouseClickEventHander GlobalMouseClick;
public TestForm()
{
InitializeComponent();
BindControlMouseClicks(this);
}
private void BindControlMouseClicks(Control con)
{
con.MouseClick += delegate(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
TriggerMouseClicked(sender, e);
};
// bind to controls already added
foreach (Control i in con.Controls)
{
BindControlMouseClicks(i);
}
// bind to controls added in the future
con.ControlAdded += delegate(object sender, ControlEventArgs e)
{
BindControlMouseClicks(e.Control);
};
}
private void TriggerMouseClicked(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
if (GlobalMouseClick != null)
{
GlobalMouseClick(sender, e);
}
}
}
}
This solution will work not only for top-level controls, but also nested controls such as controls placed inside of panels.
In the form's ControlAdded event, add a MouseClick handler to the control, with the Address of the form's click event. I haven't tested this, but it might work.
Private Sub Example_ControlAdded(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.ControlEventArgs) Handles Me.ControlAdded
AddHandler e.Control.MouseClick, AddressOf Example_MouseClick
End Sub
Private Sub Example_MouseClick(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles Me.MouseClick
MessageBox.Show("Click")
End Sub
The only way I've ever managed to do this is to handle the [c]Click[/c] event of every control. I don't believe the event is raised before the control processes it.
In WPF, there are "tunneling" preview events that provide this functionality, but that doesn't really help you in WinForms.
You can hook all the control's events, if you like, and then monitor that way. I assume there is some uber fancy Win32 api way to trap them all, but that is beyond me at the moment.
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
HookEvents();
}
private void HookEvents() {
foreach (Control ctl in this.Controls) {
ctl.MouseClick += new MouseEventHandler(Form1_MouseClick);
}
}
void Form1_MouseClick(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
LogEvent(sender, "MouseClick");
}
// and then this just logs to a multiline textbox you have somwhere on the form
private void LogEvent(object sender, string msg) {
this.textBox1.Text = string.Format("{0} {1} ({2}) \n {3}",
DateTime.Now.TimeOfDay.ToString(),
msg,
sender.GetType().Name,
textBox1.Text
);
}
The output is something like this, showing all the events and who "sent" them up:
14:51:42.3381985 MouseClick (Form1)
14:51:40.6194485 MouseClick (RichTextBox)
14:51:40.0100735 MouseClick (TextBox)
14:51:39.6194485 MouseClick (Form1)
14:51:39.2131985 MouseClick (RichTextBox)
14:51:38.8694485 MouseClick (Button)
HTH.
Catching a click on an open space on the form is easy, but to get a click that's actually on a control, you'll need the cooperation of that control to send it to the form.
One possibility is to place a transparent control over the entire form, and accept clicks onto that, deal with them, and then pass them onto the proper control underneath.
This is a common pattern in development, its called the Observer pattern. There are lots of examples of Observer patterns and c# here is 1 example http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms954621.aspx but have a good google around.