Click a button in code

[pdbowling]

Hi all.
I am inheriting a form and the StartButton_Click() event is private.

Is there a way to click the button in code as soon as the application starts up? I thought that I could access private members since I am inheriting the class's functionality but I must be mistaken. StartButton_Click() does not show up in 'Code Complete'.

StartButton.Click() is expecting the += delegation so that didn't work, either.

Thanks,everyone.
Patrick

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[pdbowling]

I found it. It's .PerformClick().
P

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[JurkMonkey]

You have a form that responds to a click event and you want to call that event from a different part of your code?

Why is your button doing work rather than a controller(other class) of some sort. Even a different method would be good.

Example:

private void StartButtonClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
PerformAnAction();
}

private void Form_Shown(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
PerformAnAction();
}

private void PerformAnAction()
{
//Do your work here!
}



If you find that you absolutely need to make the button click then you can either call the method directly "this.StartButton_Click(StartButton, EventArgs.Empty)" or invoke the click

this.Invoke(new EventHandler(StartButton_Click), new object[] {EventArgs.Empty});


As an added note - your form should never be responsible for doing work. It should only be a view of data that exists in another class. Take the time to google the Model View Controller design pattern.

Hope that helps.

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