Get target control from DoubleAnimation Completed event in WPF?

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I'm hoping someone can help me with what I thought would be a relatively straight forward problem. I am setting a fadeout animation in code using a DoubleAnimation object. It fades out an image, and then fires off the Completed event when it's done. I would like to get the name of the control that the fadeout animation was applied to from within the event handler, but I can't find a way. Any help appreciated. Thanks. ``` DispatcherTimer timer = new DispatcherTimer(); public MainWindow() { InitializeComponent(); image1.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Visible; image2.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Collapsed; timer.Interval = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2); timer.Tick += new EventHandler(timer_Tick); timer.Start(); } void FadeOut(UIElement element) { DoubleAnimation FadeOut = new DoubleAnimation(1, 0, new Duration(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(0.5))); FadeOut.Completed += new EventHandler(FadeOut_Completed); element.BeginAnimation(OpacityProperty, FadeOut); } void FadeOut_Completed(object…

Accepted Answer

The following code gives you the target of completed animation. Place it in FadeOut_Completed() handler:

```
DependencyObject target = Storyboard.GetTarget(((sender as AnimationClock).Timeline as AnimationTimeline))
```

However this will only work if animation target object is specified. To do it add the following to FadeOut() method:

```
Storyboard.SetTarget(FadeOut, element);
```

Get target control from DoubleAnimation Completed event in WPF?

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