Programmatically triggering a button from another form in C#

[Rieda]

Good Afternoon

I have a button sitting on form1 and i would like form2 to trigger that button

How do I go about doing that:

eg say button1.PerformClick();

I would like to call the event using form2 and the button is on form1

[Plater]

make the event handler public and then you can call myformA.Button1_Clicked(sender, eventargs).

Or, you might be able to trigger it through the messagepump. You could send a windows message of a mouseclick over and trick it. Although that's much more complicated.

[r035198x]

Good Afternoon

I have a button sitting on form1 and i would like form2 to trigger that button

How do I go about doing that:

eg say button1.PerformClick();

I would like to call the event using form2 and the button is on form1

Depends on the eventargs expected by the form1's action handler.
If you don't care about the event args, then you also consider declaring a method elsewhere which does the required actions and then you can just call that method from both action handlers of the two buttons.

[Plater]

EventArgs for most of the event handlers contain nothing usefull, especially if they're "EventArgs" and not say "MouseEventArgs".
And if you don't use what comes in on them, then it doesn't matter either way

[r035198x]

eventargs for most of the event handlers contain nothing usefull, especially if they "EventArgs" and not say "MouseEventArgs".
And if you don't use what comes in on them, then it doesn't matter either way

True. I just don't like the idea of calling an action handler in code. That's not good practice at all is a nice recipe for spaghetti.

[Plater]

True. I just don't like the idea of calling an action handler in code. That's not good practice at all is a nice recipe for spaghetti.

Me either, but they asked for it.
Generally I would have a function that my action handlers call, that other handlers/functions can have access to.