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    Which event raised the event procedure?

    Where a procedure handles more that one event, how can the event that raised the procedure be determined?

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    Re: Which event raised the event procedure?

    I don't think you can tell which event fired it. The sender parameter will tell you which control raised the event but if your sub is the handler several events for the same control with the same parm signature you wouldn't know which event was fired.

    My suggestion would be to use separate handlers for each event but have the handlers call on to your sub. The handlers could pass the event name in as a parameter so your sub could behave appropriately.
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    Re: Which event raised the event procedure?

    Thanks that sounds like a good suggestion. I just wanted to integrate into a single sub if possible.

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    Re: Which event raised the event procedure?

    Well you'd have all your functionality in a single sub. The event handlers would be simple pass-through methods who's only responsibility would be to identify which event was being fired.
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    Re: Which event raised the event procedure?

    As already noted, the sender identifies the control which raised the event; this is how you perform the identification (it's the whole point of the sender).

    Of course, if (for example) you have multiple buttons with one handler, then the sender will be a button object and you can cast (or, rather, TryCast) it to a button. Each button object will/should have specific properties which uniquely identify it. the Tag property of controls allow you to store any object you like. So you could TryCast() to a button then TryCast() the Tag to your identifying object.
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    Re: Which event raised the event procedure?

    There is a rare case where you would be able to identify between different callers, but it's not a good idea. If the signature of the event handler had e As EventArgs as the second argument, then the handler could handle nearly any event, since most events will pass some object derived from EventArgs as the second argument. In that case, you may be able to differentiate the caller by examinging the type of the argument passed. This is a pretty bad idea, though, because it would mean making more work for the computer to do with the only benefit being slightly neater code.

    I much prefer the idea of putting all the code in one sub, then having event handlers for each relevant event, and letting the event handlers call the sub.
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    Re: Which event raised the event procedure?

    For what its worth, you can use the StackTrace to get the calling method (OnSomething) using code similar to this.

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    Private Sub Label1_Handler(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _
                Handles Label1.Click, Label1.MouseLeave, Label1.MouseDown, Label1.MouseEnter
       Dim st As New StackTrace
       Dim frames As StackFrame() = st.GetFrames
    
       If frames.Length > 0 Then
          Dim frameNumber As Int32
          Dim frame As StackFrame
          Dim meth As Reflection.MethodBase
          ' the 1st frame (Index = 0) would be this method
          Do
             frameNumber += 1
             frame = frames(frameNumber)
             meth = frame.GetMethod
             If meth.Name <> "Invoke" OrElse frameNumber = frames.GetUpperBound(0) Then
                Exit Do
             End If
          Loop
    
          TextBox1.AppendText(String.Format("Calling Method: {0}{1}", meth.Name, Environment.NewLine))
       End If
    End Sub

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    Re: Which event raised the event procedure?

    The more I think about this the more I think we're probably kicking some bad design down the road.

    Why do you want to know which event fired the sub? The sub should have a single behaviour regardless of what's calling it. If the behaviour is substantially different then it should be a separate sub.

    Does your sub contain a big if/case statement that takes it down different paths depending on which event fired it? If so that's bad design and you should turn it on it's head. Instead of having a single routine that behaves differently for different events you should have separate subs for each event but they should call small subs which implement any common behaviour.
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    Re: Which event raised the event procedure?

    Quote Originally Posted by FunkyDexter View Post
    The more I think about this the more I think we're probably kicking some bad design down the road.

    ...
    I'd agree with this. If you have a handler method handling multiple events, then you want the same behavior regardless of the object which raises the event. If you want different behavior then have a different handler.

    Just because we can add multiple events to a single handler, doesn't mean we should.
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