Event Handling With C# - GUI Event Handling

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Event handling in Windows Forms (the .NET framework that supports GUI applications) employs the .NET event-handling model described earlier. We will now apply that model to write a simple application. The application has one class, MyForm, derived from System.Windows.Forms.Form class. Class MyForm is derived from the Form class.

If you study the code and the three comment lines, you will observe that you do not have to declare the delegates and reference those delegates using the event keyword because the events (mouse click, etc.) for the GUI controls (Form, Button, etc.) are already available to you and the delegate is System.EventHandler.

However, you still need to define the method, create the delegate object (System.EventHandler) and plug in the method that you want to fire in response to the event (e.g. a mouse click):

using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Collections;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Data;

public class MyForm Form{
private Button m_nameButton;
private Button m_clearButton;
private Label m_nameLabel;

private Container m_components = null;

public MyForm(){
initializeComponents();
}
private void initializeComponents(){
m_nameLabel=new Label();
m_nameButton = new Button();
m_clearButton = new Button();

SuspendLayout();

m_nameLabel.Location=new Point(16,16);
m_nameLabel.Text="Click NAME button, please";
m_nameLabel.Size=new Size(300,23);

m_nameButton.Location=new Point(16,120);
m_nameButton.Size=new Size(176, 23);
m_nameButton.Text="NAME";
//Create the delegate, plug in the method, and attach the delegate to the Click event of the button
m_nameButton.Click += new System.EventHandler(NameButtonClicked);

m_clearButton.Location=new Point(16,152);
m_clearButton.Size=new Size(176,23);
m_clearButton.Text="CLEAR";
//Create the delegate, plug in the method, and attach the delegate to the Click event of the button
m_clearButton.Click += new System.EventHandler(ClearButtonClicked);

this.ClientSize = new Size(292, 271);
this.Controls.AddRange(new Control[] {m_nameLabel,m_nameButton,m_clearButton});
this.ResumeLayout(false);
}

//Define the methods whose signature exactly matches with the declaration of the delegate
private void NameButtonClicked(object sender, EventArgs e){
m_nameLabel.Text="My name is john, please click CLEAR button to clear it";
}
private void ClearButtonClicked(object sender,EventArgs e){
m_nameLabel.Text="Click NAME button, please";
}
public static void Main(){
Application.Run(new MyForm());
}
}

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