Tuesday, 21 June 2011

how to make common control event for all child control of container

Hi friends
so time in my winform base project, I get scenario where one  to assign a click event handler to all child/dynamic Controls contained in a User Control. This is a good method but I found there was no proper docs for this.

hence to demostrate this, I mad a simple Win Form app and added a new WinForms User Control to the project. than named as AutoLabelClickControl.now put a label right on the control called ‘Control Label’. then put a panel with a label on it called ‘Panel Label’ and then placed a panel contained in the first panel and put a label on it called ‘Panel in a Panel Label’.
 
The trciks  is that when the control named 'AutolblClickControl" has been loaded,  then code should attached to a  common click event handler for all label control. teh  Add a _Load event handler to Control  and do  required coding:
// This is the Common Event Handler for all Label Clicks
private void LabelClickEventHandler(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (sender is Label)
{
// do proper type casting
// put ur funcationality
Label templbl = sender as Label;
MessageBox.Show(templbl.Name);
} 
} 
// Walk the collection recursively and find Label Controls and wire them up
private void FindLabelControlsInContainerAndAssignEvent(Control.ControlCollection aCollection)
{
foreach (Control aControl in aCollection)
{
if (aContr.Controls.Count > 0)
{
// this will be called  recursively!
GetlblconrolsInContainerAndsetEvnt(aControl.Controls);
} 
// wire up our Common Event Handler
if (aContr is System.Windows.Forms.Label)
{
  aContr.Click += new System.EventHandler(LabelClickEventHandler);
} 
}
} 
private void AutolabelClickControl__Load(
object sender, EventArgs e)
{
GetlblconrolsInContainerAndsetEvnt(this.Controls);
} 
And we will test it now ..
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 Although you may think you may not have a label contained in a label control, you can actually do this if you edit in Designer code file and that's why dont  have an ‘else’ statement between these:
// does this control contain other controls?
if (aContr.Controls.Count > 0)
{
// call this function recursively!
GetlblconrolsInContainerAndsetEvnt(aContr.Controls);
} 

/// to wireup  Common Event Handler
if (aContr is System.Windows.Forms.Label)
{
 aContr.Click += new System.EventHandler(LblClickEventHandler);
} 
I hope you find it usefull..!!

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