In WPF how can I control whether another button clicked

Question

I want to determine another button is clicked in WPF. I wrote same code as below, when I clicked that button the animation works after that when I clicked same button the animation work like as else block. But I want to control if another button is clicked and than I want to work of the else block.

int i = 0;
private void btnDashboard_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    // btnDashboard.Click += btnDashboard_Click;
    // Button btnSender = (Button)sender;
    if (i%2==0)
    {
        DoubleAnimation anim = new DoubleAnimation(250, 1470, new Duration(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(300)));
        btnDashboard.BeginAnimation(FrameworkElement.WidthProperty, anim);
        ((ApplicationShell)App.Current.MainWindow).ShowPages(new UCDashboardIndicatorView());
        i++;
    }
    else
    {
        DoubleAnimation anim = new DoubleAnimation(1470, 250, new Duration(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(300)));
        btnDashboard.BeginAnimation(FrameworkElement.WidthProperty, anim);
        base.OnApplyTemplate();
        i++;
    }

}

How can I control it?

Answer 1

if you want to use same Click handler for two buttons, Try this:

private void btnDashboard_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
   Button btnSender = sender as Button;
   if(btnSender.Name == "btn1")
    {
      //Code for Button1
    }
    else
    {
      //Code for Button2
    }
}

Also make sure each button has a Name property set in XAML so that you can access it in code behind. in XAML:

<Grid>
   <Button Name="btn1" Click="btnDashboard_Click"/>
   <Button Name="btn2" Click="btnDashboard_Click"/>
</Grid>

Answer 2

Simply add your other Button as a subscriber to the event.

<Button Click="btnDashboard_Click" ... />
<Button Click="btnDashboard_Click" ... />

And in your event method, you can get hold of the button that was clicked:

Button btn = sender as Button;

Then, you can apply your animation to the desired button:

btn.BeginAnimation(FrameworkElement.WidthProperty, anim);

Note: The above code references btn, which could be either one of the two buttons that was clicked.

If you need to take this a step further by applying an animation based on a specific button that was clicked, you could give each button a Name and test btn.Name in an if statement.