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how to retrieve text of buttons clicked in windows form with one single method

I have a windows form application with multiple buttons. I need to retrieve the text property of any button clicked in order to create a query to the database. the only way I know is to create a button click event and cast the sender as button then do a switch case for each button Id which seems very hectic since I probably will have more than 100 buttons in the entire application. So my question is there a generic key press method I can create which can retrieve the text property of any button pressed/clicked on the form? Please excuse me if the question is not very clear. Any help will be appreciate

Use a single click event handler for all similar kind of buttons. This way there will be click event subscribed for every button but only one method which will be executed for all buttons. You can determine which button was pressed as follows.
Using sender object as follows;
private void button_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var buttonText = ((Button)sender).Text;
//Query using buttonText
}
Update:
Above answer will still require you to subscribe click event for each button. If you don't want that then have a look at following approach;
You could use (ClickTransparentButton or) disable (Enabled=false) all these buttons and add click event on parent Form. Once you get click event you can get button which was clicked as follows;
private void Form1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var p = PointToClient(Cursor.Position);
var control = GetChildAtPoint(p);
if(control is Button)
{
var buttonText = ((Button)control).Text;
//Query using buttonText
}
}
But this has few disadvantages such as, you will not be able to operate these buttons using keyboard.
and more...

Create some function as buttons click handler:
private void buttonClickHandler(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string buttonName = (sender as Button).Text;
}
2A. Connect Click event of every button to this handler.
2B. To automate connection of button click handler use something like that:
private void connectButtonsHandlers()
{
foreach(var c in this.Controls)
{
if(c is Button)
{
(c as Button).Click += buttonClickHandler;
}
}
}
Add this code to form constructor to perform connection at program start.

one Click event for multiple buttons with Text property

I want to make a click event for a bunch of buttons. The problem is that I want to use the button's Text, and pass it to a function. Now the click event is passed a object sender. When I tried changing that to Button sender, it gave errors. But I don't know how else I can work with the senders Text.
Here is the normal code, which gave a single error:
private void guess_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
guess(sender.Text);
}
I changed it to this, which gave errors:
private void guess_Click(Button sender, EventArgs e)
{
guess(sender.Text);
}
Question:
How can I work with the Button's Text property within this click event, which is a single click_event for multiple buttons?

Step 1: You need to subscribe to the Button Click event of all your buttons to the same EventHandler. so that button click on all your Buttons will fire the same `Event Handler.
Step 2: You need to cast the object sender into Button and then access its Text property to get the Button Text.
Try This:
button1.Click += new System.EventHandler(MyButtonClick);
button2.Click += new System.EventHandler(MyButtonClick);
button3.Click += new System.EventHandler(MyButtonClick);
private void MyButtonClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Button btnClick = (Button)sender ;
guess(btnClick.Text);
}

Cast sender to type button.
Example:
private void guess_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
guess(((Button)sender).Text);
}

You need to cast the sender object to the Button type and use that:
private void guess_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Button senderBtn = senderBtn as Button;
if(senderBtn != null)
{
guess(senderBtn.Text);
}
}

Dynamically create buttons and add events to it

I need to dynamically create buttons (one for loop) and add "onClick" and "doubuleClick" events on it.
I did it like this:
Button bt = new Button();
bt.Click += bt_Click;
bt.DoubleClick += bt_DoubleClick;
private void bt_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
label1.Text = this.Text;
}
private void bt_DoubleClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//some code
}
First: My "bt_Click" method gets "main form" text in "label1". In debugger I see that sender is a button. What is wrong with it?
Second: My "bt_DoubleClick" event do not react at all, am I doing something wrong here?
Any help is appreciated.

You should cast sender to Button to get the bt.Text:
Button bt = new Button();
bt.Click += bt_Click;
bt.Text = "click me";
bt.Location = new Point(100,100);
this.Controls.Add(bt);
private void bt_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
label1.Text = (sender as Button).Text;
}
Buttons doesn't react to double click event. You can read it here in detail.

In response to the first question, if I understand you correctly, in this.Text, this refers to the form because the method bt_Click is a member of the Main Form class. I think you might have meant to do:
private void bt_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
label1.Text = (Button)sender.Text;
}
Second: Is this just a case of the bt_Click handler firing twice?

The easiest way to do this it is to use "datagrid".
Datagread has the great support for all events and for organization of items (image, text and so on).
I have made "save" or "open" dialog form to browse content from remote SFTP server, very easy with datagrad, but I had a problem to do it with buttons or labels.

Windows Forms - get Text value from object of type button

I have a Windows form named Form1 and panel within this form named panel1. I use the panel only to place buttons there so that I can group them and work with them separately from the other buttons in my Form1. For the purpose of my program I need to handle every button click made from the buttons inside panel1. For this purpose I use the same code snippet:
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
// Set a click event handler for the button in the panel
foreach (var button in panel1.Controls.OfType<Button>())
{
button.Click += HandleClick;
}
}
What I need to do is to have a way to identify which button exactly has been clicked. For this purpose I played a little bit with my handler method:
private void HandleClick(object o, EventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show("HI" + o.ToString());
}
which gave me some hope because I get this:
It's the second part - Text: button4 which is actually enough information to continue with my work. But I can't find a way to get this piece of information without some complicated string manipulations. So is there a way to get this or other unique information about the button been clicked given the way I have written my code?

private void HandleClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var btn = sender as Button;
if (btn != null)
{
MessageBox.Show(btn.Text);
}
}

One option is to cast the object to a Button, but rather than doing the casting you can change how the event handler is assigned so that you don't need to cast in the first place:
foreach (var button in panel1.Controls.OfType<Button>())
{
button.Click += (_,args)=> HandleClick(button, args);
}
Then just change the signature of HandleClick to:
private void HandleClick(Button button, EventArgs e);

You need to cast sender to the Button class so you can access its properties:
Button b = (Button)sender;
MessageBox.Show(b.Text);

how to handle programmatically added button events? c#

I'm making a windows forms application using C#. I add buttons and other controls programmatically at run time. I'd like to know how to handle those buttons' click events?

Try the following
Button b1 = CreateMyButton();
b1.Click += new EventHandler(this.MyButtonHandler);
...
void MyButtonHandler(object sender, EventArgs e) {
...
}

Use this code to handle several buttons' click events:
private int counter=0;
private void CreateButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//Create new button.
Button button = new Button();
//Set name for a button to recognize it later.
button.Name = "Butt"+counter;
// you can added other attribute here.
button.Text = "New";
button.Location = new Point(70,70);
button.Size = new Size(100, 100);
// Increase counter for adding new button later.
counter++;
// add click event to the button.
button.Click += new EventHandler(NewButton_Click);
}
// In event method.
private void NewButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Button btn = (Button) sender;
for (int i = 0; i < counter; i++)
{
if (btn.Name == ("Butt" + i))
{
// When find specific button do what do you want.
//Then exit from loop by break.
break;
}
}
}

If you want to see what button was clicked then you can do the following once you create and assign the buttons. Considering that you create the button IDs manually:
protected void btn_click(object sender, EventArgs e) {
Button btn = (Button)sender // if you're sure that the sender is button,
// otherwise check if it is null
if(btn.ID == "blablabla")
// then do whatever you want
}
You can also check them from giving a command argument to each button.

Check out this example How to create 5 buttons and assign individual click events dynamically in C#

seems like this works, while adding a tag with each element of the array
Button button = sender as Button;
do you know of a better way?

In regards to your comment saying you'd like to know which button was clicked, you could set the .Tag attribute of a button to whatever kind of identifying string you want as it's created and use
private void MyButtonHandler(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string buttonClicked = (sender as Button).Tag;
}