How to refactor and improve this XNA mouse input code?

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Published on 2012-02-20T04:24:04Z Indexed on 2012/06/11 4:47 UTC
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Currently I have something like this:

public bool IsLeftMouseButtonDown()
{
    return currentMouseState.LeftButton == ButtonState.Pressed && previousMouseSate.LeftButton == ButtonState.Pressed;
}

public bool IsLeftMouseButtonPressed()
{
    return currentMouseState.LeftButton == ButtonState.Pressed && previousMouseSate.LeftButton == ButtonState.Released;
}

public bool IsLeftMouseButtonUp()
{
    return currentMouseState.LeftButton == ButtonState.Released && previousMouseSate.LeftButton == ButtonState.Released;
}

public bool IsLeftMouseButtonReleased()
{
    return currentMouseState.LeftButton == ButtonState.Released && previousMouseSate.LeftButton == ButtonState.Pressed;
}

This is fine. In fact, I kind of like it. However, I'd hate to have to repeat this same code five times (for right, middle, X1, X2). Is there any way to pass in the button I want to the function so I could have something like this?

public bool IsMouseButtonDown(MouseButton button)
{
    return currentMouseState.IsPressed(button) &&  previousMouseState.IsPressed(button);
}

public bool IsMouseButtonPressed(MouseButton button)
{
    return currentMouseState.IsPressed(button) &&  !previousMouseState.IsPressed(button);
}

public bool IsMouseButtonUp(MouseButton button)
{
    return !currentMouseState.IsPressed(button) &&  previousMouseState.IsPressed(button);
}

public bool IsMouseButtonReleased(MouseButton button)
{
    return !currentMouseState.IsPressed(button) &&  previousMouseState.IsPressed(button);
}

I suppose I could create some custom enumeration and switch through it in each function, but I'd like to first see if there is a built-in solution or a better way..

Thanks!

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