How can I make sender in an eventhandler my custom control and not the labels inside it

Question

I created a custom control which is actually just two labels inside a panel. I want to add an event so that when my custom control is clicked (which would really be clicking either one of the labels) it would return the properties of the whole control, I think that would mean that 'sender' in the event handler would be my custom control and not one of the lables. I don't know if I made myself clear but what I mean is to treat the control as a 'whole' when it is clicked mmm anyway hope you get my point.

How can I do this? Thanks in advance

Answer 1

What you can do is let the custom control consume the event of the label, and in the custom control implement a new event. Then, when the label event fires, you can fire your own event from the custom control.

For example:

public partial class UserControl1 : UserControl
{
    public UserControl1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    public event EventHandler MyCustomClickEvent;

    protected virtual void OnMyCustomClickEvent(EventArgs e)
    {
        // Here, you use the "this" so it's your own control. You can also
        // customize the EventArgs to pass something you'd like.

        if (MyCustomClickEvent != null)
            MyCustomClickEvent(this, e);
    }

    private void label1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        OnMyCustomClickEvent(EventArgs.Empty);
    }
}

Answer 2

You can get the container object of your label and cast it to your custom control

private void Label1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
     Box box = (object as Label).Parent as Box;
     if(box != null)
     {
         //Do what you need here.
     }
}