What is the best way to simulate a Click with MouseUp & MouseDown events or otherwise?

Question

In WPF most controls have MouseUp and MouseDown events (and the mouse-button-specific variations) but not a simple Click event that ca

Answer 1

Here is a simple solution that I use on a fairly regular basis. It is easy, and works in all sorts of scenarios.

In your code, place this.

private object DownOn = null;

private void LeftButtonUp(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
  if (DownOn == sender)
  {
    MessageBox.Show((sender as FrameworkElement).Name);
  }
  DownOn = null;
}

private void LeftButtonDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
  DownOn = sender;
}

Now all you have to do is setup handlers for all of the controls that you care about i.e.

If you have a ton of controls, and don't want to do it all in XAML, you can do it in your controls / window constructor programatically.

This will cover most of your scenarios, and it can easily be tweaked to handle special cases.