Hi Mike,

suppose to have a toolbar that composes itself at runtime and a specific place could be occupied by two (or more) different ButtonTools. In this case you can not know what code to execute, it depends on what ButtonTool has been used. So, please could you demonstrate me how to invoke the click programmatically?

Thanks in advance
Gianni

You can add ToolButton->SharedProps->Shortcut (eg: F8)
then, in the code:
 

SendKeys.Send("{F8}");

What I can understand from your code is that from one part of your code you need to activate a functionality that you don't have access to.

Instead of clicking a ButtonTool, I think you should make that functionality public, so you can invoke it from other libraries.

For me, having to mimic a click on a UI control to invoke something looks like a bad design.

Emanuel

PS: Here is the initial code I posted in this thread, modified for the situation I described above:

Library 1:

The class (Class1) where you are adding the button tool to toolbar:

private void OnToolbarManagerToolClick(object sender, ToolClickEventArgs e)
{
    switch (e.Tool.Key) 
    {
        case "ToolKey1": 
            Class2.Action1(); 
    } 
} 

The class (Class2) that contains the functionality you seek:
public void Action1()
{
    // specific code to complete the selected operation 
}

From you main application, when you need to invoke the same functionality as the click on the button tool:

...

Class2.Action1();

...

In the code above I've used Class2 and should be treated as an instance call or as a static call, depending on your situation.

It isn't possible. The button tools are dinamically created in a dll from a configuration file. Each user chooses the menu to emulate from button.

I solved in this (terrible) way:

tlbTool = Me.Tools(sTool)
With DirectCast(tlbTool, ButtonTool)
                        Dim aAppearanceData As Infragistics.Win.AppearanceData = Nothing
                        With .SharedProps.ToolInstances(0)
                            .ResolveAppearance(aAppearanceData, Infragistics.Win.AppearancePropFlags.BackColor)
                            Dim srt As Shortcut = .SharedProps.Shortcut
                            .SharedProps.Shortcut = Shortcut.Ctrl0
                            SendKeys.Send("^0")
                            Application.DoEvents()
                            .SharedProps.Shortcut = srt
                            .SharedProps.AppearancesSmall.AppearanceOnMenu.BackColor = aAppearanceData.BackColor
                        End With
                        aAppearanceData = Nothing
                    End With

Have you tried what was described at the top of the thread (creating a method to handle the button click logic and call it both from the UltraToolbarsManager.ToolClick event handler and the place where you need to invoke the click programmatically)? That is the best way to implement this.