Firing MouseLeftButtonDown event programmatically

I'm trying to manually fire a MouseLeftButtonDown event on a WPF control programmatically, as I am using the Microsoft Surface SDK, which does not fire MouseLeftButtonDown events, but ContactDown events. Basically I'm trying to开发者_如何转开发 push the MouseLeftButtonDown event down to the control, to fire off the correct behavior on the control, while handling a ContactDown event.

I'm guessing I have to somehow use the RaiseEvent method on the control to do this with MouseButtonEventArgs, but I'm having some trouble figuring out the parameters.

Thanks in advance for your help!

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You can spoof mouse and key events using Win32 interop. Investigate the SendInput function on MSDN/pinvoke.net.

Note that this will cause the system and other applications to think the mouse was actually clicked. If you just want to initiate a WPF event, try RaiseEvent( new RoutedEventArgs( UIElement.MouseLeftButtonDownEvent ) ).

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The wish to trigger a certain event in a control is quite often an indicator of a design problem in the code. Event handlers should trigger behavior, not perform it. I would suggest that you move the code that performs the action triggered by the MouseLeftButtonDown event handler into a separate method. Then the same method can be called from the ContactDown event handler.

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var grid = new Grid();            

int timestamp = new TimeSpan(DateTime.Now.Ticks).Milliseconds;
const MouseButton mouseButton = MouseButton.Left;
var mouseDownEvent =
   new MouseButtonEventArgs(Mouse.PrimaryDevice, timestamp, mouseButton) {
       RoutedEvent = UIElement.MouseLeftButtonDownEvent,
       Source = grid,
   };

This is how I fire the event in my test code.

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This is the static method I use to raise click events for any UIElement.

using System;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Input;

    
public static void RaiseMouseClickEvent(UIElement elementToClick, MouseButton buttonToUse)
{
    elementToClick.RaiseEvent(new MouseButtonEventArgs(Mouse.PrimaryDevice, Environment.TickCount, buttonToUse) { RoutedEvent = Button.ClickEvent });
}