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Can't change a button't text at runtime anymore??????

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  • F fiaolle

    Hi I can't see any difference. Here is my code.

    private void btn_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
    if (folder.Visible==true )
    {
    btn.Text = "Hi";
    }
    else
    {
    btn.Text = "By";
    }
    }

    The variable folder is just a bool variable. When I debug my code I can see that it runs as it should, but still the button's Text doesn't change. I don't know if it has anything to do with the problem, but I have a FileLListbox and a FolderListBox from Alva on the form. Should that be the problem. Many Thanks Fia

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    OriginalGriff
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    Try something quick: Put a breakpoint on the if line of the handler, and change teh button text in the designer to "TEST". Run your app, and press the button. Look at btn.Text in the debugger - is it "TEST"?

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    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

      Try something quick: Put a breakpoint on the if line of the handler, and change teh button text in the designer to "TEST". Run your app, and press the button. Look at btn.Text in the debugger - is it "TEST"?

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      fiaolle
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      #11

      Hi I tried that and the text is "Test". I tried also to remove all Alva controls, but I still can't change the text on the button. :( Thanks Fia

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      • F fiaolle

        Hi I tried that and the text is "Test". I tried also to remove all Alva controls, but I still can't change the text on the button. :( Thanks Fia

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        So at least we can be absolutely sure that the right button is hooked up - if you replace the handler content with

        btn.Text = "WTF!";

        and single step over that one instruction, is the text still "Test" or "WTF!" - I'm just wondering if the text is being changed back somewhere else (which would be a weird thing to do automatically)

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        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

          So at least we can be absolutely sure that the right button is hooked up - if you replace the handler content with

          btn.Text = "WTF!";

          and single step over that one instruction, is the text still "Test" or "WTF!" - I'm just wondering if the text is being changed back somewhere else (which would be a weird thing to do automatically)

          Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

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          fiaolle
          wrote on last edited by
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          Hi It changes to "WTF" in the code, but after the event. The buttons text is "Test"????? Thanks Fia

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          • F fiaolle

            Hi It changes to "WTF" in the code, but after the event. The buttons text is "Test"????? Thanks Fia

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            OriginalGriff
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            :wtf: Something has got to be changing it back! Delete it. Rebuild. That should give you any errors that refer to it. If there aren't any, put it back and repeat the above, see if it works. Either that or you have a PC full of malevolent pixies... :laugh:

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            • F fiaolle

              Hi When I could change the text at runtime, I think the property was called Capture. How do you do in Visual Studio 2010? If I set the button btn's property Text to "By" and try the below

              btn.Text="Hi"

              nothing happens. How do I do it nowadays :confused: Many Thanks Fia

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              OOPSEP
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              private void btn_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
              {
              if (folder.Visible==true )
              {
              btn.Text = "Hi";
              }
              else
              {
              btn.Text = "By";
              }

              }

              Make sure your property folder.Visible is change when click state btn.Text = folder.Visible?"Hi":By; folder.Visible=!folder.Visible; // reset state here

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                private void btn_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
                {
                if (folder.Visible==true )
                {
                btn.Text = "Hi";
                }
                else
                {
                btn.Text = "By";
                }

                }

                Make sure your property folder.Visible is change when click state btn.Text = folder.Visible?"Hi":By; folder.Visible=!folder.Visible; // reset state here

                TU

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                fiaolle
                wrote on last edited by
                #16

                Hi I am changing the folder to visible or not visible. But nothing is helping me. Thanks Fia

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                • F fiaolle

                  Hi When I could change the text at runtime, I think the property was called Capture. How do you do in Visual Studio 2010? If I set the button btn's property Text to "By" and try the below

                  btn.Text="Hi"

                  nothing happens. How do I do it nowadays :confused: Many Thanks Fia

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                  BillWoodruff
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #17

                  Given all the responses above, clearly something very weird is happening here. Are you talking about a standard WinForms Button object here ? Also: what is "folder," exactly: that's an odd name for a Control. And, if "folder" has a boolean "visible" property, you can use it directly : if (folder.Visible) ... You mention: "I don't know if it has anything to do with the problem, but I have a FileLListbox and a FolderListBox from Alva on the form. Should that be the problem." Is "folder" by chance an "Alva" control ? What are the "Alva" controls, and, is it possible your use of them has introduced some kind of modification that is indirectly changing the way other controls behave ? good luck, Bill

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                  • F fiaolle

                    Hi It changes to "WTF" in the code, but after the event. The buttons text is "Test"????? Thanks Fia

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                    Pete OHanlon
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                    Put a breakpoint in your code in this routine. Search through your code for all instances of the word Test and put breakpoints on them all - each and everyone. Run the program again and note each breakpoint you hit - you must be resetting the text back to Test after you have left this routine.

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                    • B BillWoodruff

                      Given all the responses above, clearly something very weird is happening here. Are you talking about a standard WinForms Button object here ? Also: what is "folder," exactly: that's an odd name for a Control. And, if "folder" has a boolean "visible" property, you can use it directly : if (folder.Visible) ... You mention: "I don't know if it has anything to do with the problem, but I have a FileLListbox and a FolderListBox from Alva on the form. Should that be the problem." Is "folder" by chance an "Alva" control ? What are the "Alva" controls, and, is it possible your use of them has introduced some kind of modification that is indirectly changing the way other controls behave ? good luck, Bill

                      "Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones: so, is science made of facts. But, a pile of stones is not a house, and a collection of facts is not, necessarily, science." Henri Poincare

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                      fiaolle
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                      Hi Thanks for all your replies. I have found my error. I used InitializeComponent(); both in the constructor Form1() and in Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) I am so sorry for my misstake, but know it's working as it should :-D Many thanks Fia

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