[hookiethe1]

Hey folks, I'm working on an assignment for school. I have an array of 64 pictureboxes (and immediately those of you who have been around the block know I'm making a chess game!). I am using a for loop to set all of the necessary properties and event handlers for the pictureboxes as such:

for (int i = 0; i < 64; i++)
{
//set some properties
PicBoxList[i].MouseDown += new MouseEventHandler(PicBox_MouseDown);
}

void PicBox_MouseDown(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
//in here I need to reference PicBoxList[i], so I need to pass the picturebox itself, or the //array and index in here somehow
}

I've been reading a lot about delegates and such, but it's a little confusing and I'm not sure if I need a delegate here because from what I understand, they are for using multiple methods for the same eventhandler? Is there a simpler way to add an argument to an event handler?

Thanks for help!

[Curtis Rutland]

new MouseEventHandler(PicBox_MouseDown);

That part there is a delegate.

You can't change the parameters of an event handler, because they have to match the type of delegate for that event. In this case, it's a MouseEventHandler delegate, which demands and object and a MouseEventArgs (hint: all events will take an object and some kind of event argument).

However, you already have a reference to the picturebox that triggered the event. Why do you think it is named sender? It's an object, so you'll have to cast it as a PictureBox, but that's what it is. It's the object that sent the event.

This post has been edited by insertAlias: 22 March 2011 - 09:32 AM

[hookiethe1]

Ah, I thought that, and tried using sender but it didn't work, didn't realize I had to cast it. Thanks!