Question

So I’m working on my first big C# project and am currently trying to do the following. On the screen is a red stimulus, which after being clicked five times must emit an event. Let’s say in this case display a MessageBox. I know how to get MessageBoxes to display information on a button click, however, as mentioned, I want this one to show up after five clicks. I’ve scrounged the internet for weeks now and have not found anything suitable.

Here is the code I have where clicking on the stimulus yields the MessageBox with only one click.

private void AutoSPanel_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
{
}

private void pictureBox1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    MessageBox.Show("Clicking once"); 
}

Note I’ve only included the Panel and the stimulus. All other code in my program has not been included.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Answer 1

You could try this for example:

private int counter = 0;
public event EventHandler Clicked5TimesEvent;

private void OnClicked5TimesEvent() {
  if (Clicked5TimesEvent != null) {
       Clicked5TimesEvent(this, EventArgs.Empty);
  }
}

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {
  counter++;
  if (counter % 5 == 0) {
      OnClicked5TimesEvent();
  }
}