[Resolved] Creating event handlers at runtime

[Harvester]

I am writing a C# app that creates menu items dynamically. I need to create some events for these menus at runtime. Each one of these menu items can be run through the same function, I just need to hook up a click event at runtime. (i.e. they can all run through the same basic event handler and I can create the appropriate function to handle them all.) I just need to know how to create a single event handler for all of them or create individual click events for each menu item. if you can help... thanks in advance.

[DevGrp]

Try this

mnuFile.Click += new System.EventHandler(NameOfFunctionToHandleEvent);

To unsubcribe to that event you would do this

mnuFile.Click -= new System.EventHandler(NameOfFunctionToHandleEvent);

Hope that helped

[Harvester]

Exactly what I needed, thanks.

One question about unsubscribing. I am going to have to kill and recreate other menu items in their place. Should I unsubscribe to the event handlers before killing these menus? If I don't will I be wasting memory or will garbage collection take care of it when the menu item gets destroyed?

[hellswraith]

Being subscribed to an event isn't resource intensive, so it really doesn't matter.

The way I do it though, is when I am not going to be using an object that has event subscribed to, I will unsubscribe before I destroy the object.

[Harvester]

Alright. Its simple enough to loop through them and unsibscribe to the events. Better safe than sorry I guess. Thanks.