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handling mousedown for dynamic pictureboxes

Hi,

I'm using visual studio dotnet 2002 programming in vb

can anyone tell me how I can handle the mousedown event for pictureboxes I
create dynamically at runtime?
I've tried setting the mousedown to handle mybase.mousedown but it doesn't
detect the mousedown event until I move out of the pictureboxes I have
created (only works on the part of the form where I don't have any
pictureboxes). I also cannot set the mousedown event to handle my array of
pictureboxes as they are not a valid handle.

regards,

Scott M.

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Nov 19 '05 #1
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Hello,

"Scott Mackay" <sc******@nildram.co.uk> schrieb:
can anyone tell me how I can handle the mousedown
event for pictureboxes I create dynamically at runtime?


Have a look at the AddHandler and RemoveHandler keywords.

HTH,
Herfried K. Wagner
--
MVP · VB Classic, VB .NET
http://www.mvps.org/dotnet
Nov 19 '05 #2
Hi, you can use AddHandler to add an event handler for an, erm, event :)

'///
AddHandler MyRuntimePictureBox.MouseDown, AddressOf MyMouseDownHandler
'///
Public Sub MyMouseDownHandler(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As
MouseEventArgs)
Nov 19 '05 #3
Hi, thanks for the reply - that worked a treat

regards,

Scott M.
"Scott Mackay" <sc******@nildram.co.uk> wrote in message
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Hi,

I'm using visual studio dotnet 2002 programming in vb

can anyone tell me how I can handle the mousedown event for pictureboxes I
create dynamically at runtime?
I've tried setting the mousedown to handle mybase.mousedown but it doesn't
detect the mousedown event until I move out of the pictureboxes I have
created (only works on the part of the form where I don't have any
pictureboxes). I also cannot set the mousedown event to handle my array of pictureboxes as they are not a valid handle.

regards,

Scott M.

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Nov 19 '05 #4
Hi again,

okay follow up question:

now that I have handled the clicking of one of my array of pictureboxes, how
can I tell which picturebox within the array I have clicked on?

regards,

Scott M.

"Scott Mackay" <sc******@nildram.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3f***********************@mercury.nildram.net ...
Hi,

I'm using visual studio dotnet 2002 programming in vb

can anyone tell me how I can handle the mousedown event for pictureboxes I
create dynamically at runtime?
I've tried setting the mousedown to handle mybase.mousedown but it doesn't
detect the mousedown event until I move out of the pictureboxes I have
created (only works on the part of the form where I don't have any
pictureboxes). I also cannot set the mousedown event to handle my array of pictureboxes as they are not a valid handle.

regards,

Scott M.

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Nov 19 '05 #5
Hi Scott,

The sender argument of the event handler will be the PictureBox that was
clicked. It's defined as an Object, so cast it to a PictureBox and then loop
through your array until you find a match.

Regards,
Fergus.

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Public Shared Moan
Sender - now what kind of name is that ?
I've never read Sender and thought "ah,
that must be the control that the event
occurred with/in/at/to."
End Moan
Nov 19 '05 #6
Hi, your attached method has a sender argument, which can be casted to the
PictureBox which was clicked:

'///
Dim pbClicked As PictureBox
If TypeOf sender Is PictureBox Then pbClicked = DirectCast(sender,
PictureBox)
'///

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"Scott Mackay" <sc******@nildram.co.uk> wrote in message
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Hi again,

okay follow up question:

now that I have handled the clicking of one of my array of pictureboxes, how can I tell which picturebox within the array I have clicked on?

regards,

Scott M.

"Scott Mackay" <sc******@nildram.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3f***********************@mercury.nildram.net ...
Hi,

I'm using visual studio dotnet 2002 programming in vb

can anyone tell me how I can handle the mousedown event for pictureboxes I create dynamically at runtime?
I've tried setting the mousedown to handle mybase.mousedown but it doesn't detect the mousedown event until I move out of the pictureboxes I have
created (only works on the part of the form where I don't have any
pictureboxes). I also cannot set the mousedown event to handle my array

of
pictureboxes as they are not a valid handle.

regards,

Scott M.

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Nov 19 '05 #7
Hello,

"Scott Mackay" <sc******@nildram.co.uk> schrieb:
now that I have handled the clicking of one of my array of pictureboxes, how can I tell which picturebox within the array I have clicked on?


See:

Creating Control Arrays in Visual Basic .NET and Visual C# .NET
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/?u...VisualCNET.asp

HTH,
Herfried K. Wagner
--
MVP · VB Classic, VB .NET
http://www.mvps.org/dotnet
Nov 19 '05 #8

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