Handles syntax in C# - must be easy

[Ed West]

I can't find this answer anywhere! I am making a class that inherits
from StatusBar control and I want to convert this function to C#...

Private Sub Reposition(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal sbdevent As System.Windows.Forms.StatusBarDrawItemEventArgs) _
Handles MyBase.DrawItem
....
End Sub

i can't override the DrawItem method, nor can I make an event handler with

this.DrawItem += new EventHandler ...

how can I do this?

it is from this project:

http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/ProgressStatus.asp

thanks!

Ed

 

[Ed West]

nevermind, i figured it out... the this.DrawItem += had to be in a method.

in the constructor:

this.DrawItem += new
StatusBarDrawItemEventHandler(this.ProgressStatus_DrawItem);
private void ProgressStatus_DrawItem(object sender,
StatusBarDrawItemEventArgs sbdevent ) {
...
}

thanks anyway!

Ed

 

[Bruce Wood]

If you are handling the base class's event in the derived class, you
might want to consider overriding the OnDrawItem() method instead. Even
if you want to do things _in addition to_ what your base class does
when the DrawItem event happens, you can still do it in an overridden
method. If you want your derived class to do things _instead of_ what
your base class does when the DrawItem event happens, overriding
OnDrawItem() is the only way to achieve this.

I suggest this because it's a more usual idiom in the derived class:
override the appropriate On...() methods, rather than subscribing to
the parent's events.