Click Event for dynamically created buttons

[jeffshex]

Hey all,
I need some help when it comes to handling a click event for a series of buttons that are created dynamically from XML.

I have a LoadXML method that creates rows for the buttons and names them with the "name" tag from the xml.
Is what I'm trying to do is have their click event open a folder or file (basically follow a hyperlink) to whatever is specified for the path in the "location" tag.

I thought that the best way would be to pass the location string to the event, but I an too new at this to know if that's even possible or if I need to look at another angle.

Can anyone lend some advice.
Thanks!

 

[jmeckley]

you need to wire the click event to the button

private Button button;

void the_initization_of_the_button()
{
   button = new Button();
   button.id = "the id";
   button.Text = "click me";
   button.Click += do_this_when_i_am_clicked;

   //add control to form
   this.Add(button);
}

public override void Dispose()
{
   button.Click -= do_this_when_i_am_clicked;
}

void do_this_when_i_am_clicked(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   //dosomething
}

since you are creating a list of buttons from xml store a reference to the buttons in a List<Button> and add the buttons to the form and list. then cycle through the list in the dispose method to un-register each event when the form is disposed.

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.