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Gerald
Gerald

Reputation: 23479

Hooking a C# event from C++/CLI

So I have a C# class that has the following event:

public class CSClient
{
   public delegate void OnMessageHandler(Object sender, EventArgs e);
   public event OnMessageHandler OnOptionsEvent;
}

Then I have a C++/CLI class, for which I want to subscribe to OnOptionsEvent.

I have tried something like this:

void CSClientWrapper::Start()
{
   GCHandle h = GCHandle::FromIntPtr(IntPtr(_impl));
   CSClient^ obj = safe_cast<CSClient^>(h.Target);

   __hook(&CSClient::OnOptionsEvent, obj, &CSClientWrapper::OnOptions);
}

void CSClientWrapper::OnOptions(Object^ sender, EventArgs^ args)
{
}

error C2039: 'add_OnOptionsEvent' : is not a member of 'CSClient'

error C2750: 'CSClient::OnMessageHandler' : cannot use 'new' on the reference type; use 'gcnew' instead

I am completely new to C++CLI, so I suspect it is something really fundamental that I'm missing.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 997

Answers (1)

Hans Passant
Hans Passant

Reputation: 941317

Yes, that's not appropriate syntax. Best to forget that the __hook keyword exists, it was a fairly mistaken idea to add event handling syntax to native C++. You need to create a managed delegate to subscribe the event, correct syntax should be close to:

   CSClient^ obj = safe_cast<CSClient^>(h.Target);
   obj->OnOptionsEvent += 
      gcnew CSClient::OnMessageHandler(this, &CSClientWrapper::OnOptions);

Upvotes: 3

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