Having trouble changing event handler

Question

It's for my irc bot, and I am trying to change the message receiver event to be linked to the method in my other class.

 private static void client_Connected(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        
        
            gamebot.LocalUser.JoinedChannel += LocalUser_JoinedChannel;
            gamebot.LocalUser.MessageReceived += LocalUser_MessageReceived;
        
        
    }
    
   // private static void newmessage(object sender, IrcChannelEventArgs e)
   // {
   //     e.Channel.MessageReceived += Hangman.MessageReceivedHangman;
        
  //  }
    private static void LocalUser_JoinedChannel(object sender, IrcChannelEventArgs e)
    {
        e.Channel.MessageReceived += Channel_MessageReceived;
        Console.WriteLine("Joined " + e.Channel + "\n");
    }

Just not sure how to get the channeleventargs outside of a method, so I can change the event. The commented method shows sort of what i need.

public static void MessageReceivedHangman(object sender, IrcMessageEventArgs e)
    {

That is the method in a different class i would like to have execute when a message is received.

Answer 1

It's hard to know what would be best here, as you have provided so little context. All we really know is that you have one class (call it class A) handling specific events, and another class (call it class B) that wants to be able to handle events the first class already knows about.

Based on that, there are at least a couple of possibilities that might work for you.

Option #1:

Expose the "joined" event so that the second class can receive the same notifications and subscribe to the channel's event:

class JoinedChannelEventArgs : EventArgs
{
    public Channel Channel { get; private set; }

    public JoinedChannelEventArgs(Channel channel) { Channel = channel; }
}

class A
{
    public static event EventHandler<JoinedChannelEventArgs> JoinedChannel;

    private static void LocalUser_JoinedChannel(object sender, IrcChannelEventArgs e)
    {
        e.Channel.MessageReceived += Channel_MessageReceived;
        Console.WriteLine("Joined " + e.Channel + "\n");

        EventHandler<JoinedChannelEventArgs> handler = JoinedChannel;

        if (handler != null)
        {
            handler(null, new JoinedChannelEventArgs(e.Channel);
        }
    }
}

class B
{
    static void SomeMethod()
    {
        A.JoinedChannel += A_JoinedChannel;
    }

    private static void A_JoinedChannel(object sender, JoinedChannelEventArgs e)
    {
        e.Channel += MessageReceivedHangman;
    }
}

Option #2:

Expose the "message received" event instead:

class A
{
    public static event EventHandler<IrcMessageEventArgs> AnyChannelMessageReceived;

    public static void Channel_MessageReceived(object sender, IrcMessageEventArgs e)
    {
        // Whatever other code you had here, would remain

        EventHandler<IrcMessageEventArgs> handler = AnyChannelMessageReceived;

        if (handler != null)
        {
            handler(null, e);
        }
    }
}

class B
{
    static void SomeMethod()
    {
        A.AnyChannelMessageReceived += MessageReceivedHangman;
    }
}

It's not clear from your post whether having the sender of the original event is important. If it is, then IMHO Option #1 is better, as it provides direct access to the event. However, you could modify Option #2 so that it passed sender to the handler (in Channel_MessageReceived()), instead of the null that's in the example (the null is more idiomatic for a static event, but not mandatory).

If neither of those options work for you, please provide better context. See https://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve and https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask.