picturebox array click event

Question

Good day, I'm a beginner in programming and I want to create a simple chess game. I'm using windows forms in C#. I have no problem with declaring and initializing the array, but how do I set click events for each of the picureboxes? Before I was doing it in VS properties box. Here is my initializing code.

  public void picbnox()
    {
        picturbox[0, 0] = new PictureBox();
        picturbox[0, 0].Visible = true;
        picturbox[0, 0].Location = new Point(15, 30);
        picturbox[0, 0].Size = new Size(65, 65);
        picturbox[0, 0].BorderStyle = BorderStyle.FixedSingle;
        this.Controls.Add(picturbox[0, 0]);

        for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++)
        {
            for (int j = 0; j < 8; j++)
            {
                picturbox[i, j] = new PictureBox();
                picturbox[i, j].Visible = true;
                picturbox[i, j].Location = new Point(i *70, j *70);
                picturbox[i, j].Size = new Size(65, 65);
                picturbox[i, j].BorderStyle = BorderStyle.FixedSingle;
                this.Controls.Add(picturbox[i, j]);
            }
        }
    }

like I said, I'm a beginner and I know only C#(console apps and winforms) ,pascal and html. — user3552161
– user3552161, Commented Jun 2, 2014 at 6:26

Syed Farjad Zia Zaidi · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-01 20:29:04Z

1

You can add the picture box click event like this:

picturebox[0, 0].Click += picturebox_Click; // in your form load event, this is only for one picture box

void picturebox_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    // do whatever you want to do when the picture box is clicked
}

answered Jun 1, 2014 at 20:29

Syed Farjad Zia Zaidi

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2 Comments

TaW Over a year ago

To add to this answer: You may want to use one and the same event for all fields instead of adding 64 events. You can cast the sender to PictureBox to access the Control that was Clicked. You also may want to put a Name on the PB and maybe a Tag to help processing it later..

Syed Farjad Zia Zaidi Over a year ago

@user3552161 Please select it as answer if that solved your problem.

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