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  • A Ammar_Ahmad

    I made a control which has a button on it. But I need to change the text of it when it is clicked. this is what I have tried but it didn't work:

    If Button1.Text = "1" then
    Button1.Text = "0"
    Elseif Button1.Text = "0" then
    Button1.Text = "1"
    End if

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    Where did you put this code?? What EXACTLY do you want this to happen??

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      Where did you put this code?? What EXACTLY do you want this to happen??

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      Ammar_Ahmad
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      I put that code on a button_click event in a UserControl that I made. It is supposed to work as a boolean. eg if the value is 1 then it should change it to 0 else if the value is 0 it should change it to 1.

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      • A Ammar_Ahmad

        I put that code on a button_click event in a UserControl that I made. It is supposed to work as a boolean. eg if the value is 1 then it should change it to 0 else if the value is 0 it should change it to 1.

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        The click event is not going to work for this. Click is fired after the button is pushed AND released. Similar code has to be called by the MouseDown, MouseUp, KeyDown and KeyUp handlers. The xDown events fire when the button is pushed down and the mouse or key is still being held down. The xUp events fire when the mouse or key is released.

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        • D Dave Kreskowiak

          The click event is not going to work for this. Click is fired after the button is pushed AND released. Similar code has to be called by the MouseDown, MouseUp, KeyDown and KeyUp handlers. The xDown events fire when the button is pushed down and the mouse or key is still being held down. The xUp events fire when the mouse or key is released.

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          javadadabi
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          Hello before selecting another event to let your code, make a breakpoint after bottun_click() line,run your control in dubug mode check if break point stop your program,therefore event has no problem,then check your condition state.

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            Hello before selecting another event to let your code, make a breakpoint after bottun_click() line,run your control in dubug mode check if break point stop your program,therefore event has no problem,then check your condition state.

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            I think you meant to reply to the OP.

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              Hello before selecting another event to let your code, make a breakpoint after bottun_click() line,run your control in dubug mode check if break point stop your program,therefore event has no problem,then check your condition state.

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              Ammar_Ahmad
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              I added breakpoint on button1_click That event does get fired! And the other code that is in that event gets fired up correctly. The problem it that, that it doesn't change the text of button1. Here I have attached the source code as well: http://www.mediafire.com/?onhramkfh4zy6zx[^]

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              • D Dave Kreskowiak

                The click event is not going to work for this. Click is fired after the button is pushed AND released. Similar code has to be called by the MouseDown, MouseUp, KeyDown and KeyUp handlers. The xDown events fire when the button is pushed down and the mouse or key is still being held down. The xUp events fire when the mouse or key is released.

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                Ammar_Ahmad
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                Button1_click gets fired. But the text of button1 isn't changing... Here I have added the source code: http://www.mediafire.com/?onhramkfh4zy6zx[^] Can you please look into it?

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                • A Ammar_Ahmad

                  I put that code on a button_click event in a UserControl that I made. It is supposed to work as a boolean. eg if the value is 1 then it should change it to 0 else if the value is 0 it should change it to 1.

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                  Luc Pattyn
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                  If you mean the Button1 handler should modify the Button1 text, then I see no problem, that works just fine. Mind you, you will see the results only after the Click handler has finished (unless you add a call to Refresh). So changing the text initially, performing a long operation, then changing the text back to its original, all in the one Click handler, will not show any change at all. But then, you shouldn't be doing long operations inside a handler on the GUI thread to begin with... Threads (and BackgroundWorkers) were invented to decouple long operations from the GUI thread. :)

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                    If you mean the Button1 handler should modify the Button1 text, then I see no problem, that works just fine. Mind you, you will see the results only after the Click handler has finished (unless you add a call to Refresh). So changing the text initially, performing a long operation, then changing the text back to its original, all in the one Click handler, will not show any change at all. But then, you shouldn't be doing long operations inside a handler on the GUI thread to begin with... Threads (and BackgroundWorkers) were invented to decouple long operations from the GUI thread. :)

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                    Ammar_Ahmad
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                    I did add refresh() at the end... but that didn't work :(

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                    • A Ammar_Ahmad

                      I did add refresh() at the end... but that didn't work :(

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                      Then you are doing something wrong. Maybe you have more than one Button1 in your project, and you're talking to the wrong one (it helps to use meaningful names). Maybe its initial text isn't neither "0" nor "1". Maybe ... You will need to provide a more comprehensive description of what you have if you want to get more effective help around here. :)

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                      • L Luc Pattyn

                        Then you are doing something wrong. Maybe you have more than one Button1 in your project, and you're talking to the wrong one (it helps to use meaningful names). Maybe its initial text isn't neither "0" nor "1". Maybe ... You will need to provide a more comprehensive description of what you have if you want to get more effective help around here. :)

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                        Ammar_Ahmad
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                        I actually uploaded the entire source code of the application over here: http://www.mediafire.com/?onhramkfh4zy6zx[^] I think I am doing everything right... can you please check what I am doing wrong?

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                        • A Ammar_Ahmad

                          I actually uploaded the entire source code of the application over here: http://www.mediafire.com/?onhramkfh4zy6zx[^] I think I am doing everything right... can you please check what I am doing wrong?

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                          Sorry, I am not going to download, unpack, and investigate a bunch of code, and neither would anyone else around here. If you want effective help, put some effort in describing the problem properly and provide the relevant pieces of code (inside your message, and using PRE tags), not just all of it. :)

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                            Sorry, I am not going to download, unpack, and investigate a bunch of code, and neither would anyone else around here. If you want effective help, put some effort in describing the problem properly and provide the relevant pieces of code (inside your message, and using PRE tags), not just all of it. :)

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                            Ammar_Ahmad
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                            Alright. So here is the exact issue with all the pictures and everything. I have a Form which has a FlowLayoutPanel, which has a UserControl on it. That Usercontrol has a Button on it. The initial text of that Button is "0" But I want to change that to "1" if it is a "0" and change it back to "0" if it is a "1" So this is the code I used on the UserControl which has the Button on it:

                            Public Class UserControl1

                            Private Sub Button1\_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
                                If Button1.Text = "0" Then
                                    Button1.Text = "1"
                                ElseIf Button1.Text = "1" Then
                                    Button1.Text = "0"
                                End If
                            End Sub
                            

                            End Class

                            But when I click on Button1, the event does get fired but the text of the Button1, that is on the UserControl which is drawn on FlowLayoutPanel doesn't get changed.

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                              Alright. So here is the exact issue with all the pictures and everything. I have a Form which has a FlowLayoutPanel, which has a UserControl on it. That Usercontrol has a Button on it. The initial text of that Button is "0" But I want to change that to "1" if it is a "0" and change it back to "0" if it is a "1" So this is the code I used on the UserControl which has the Button on it:

                              Public Class UserControl1

                              Private Sub Button1\_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
                                  If Button1.Text = "0" Then
                                      Button1.Text = "1"
                                  ElseIf Button1.Text = "1" Then
                                      Button1.Text = "0"
                                  End If
                              End Sub
                              

                              End Class

                              But when I click on Button1, the event does get fired but the text of the Button1, that is on the UserControl which is drawn on FlowLayoutPanel doesn't get changed.

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                              First, you don't need ElseIf in this case. It should just be:

                              If Button1.Text = "0" Then
                                  Button1.Text = "1"
                              Else
                                  Button1.Text = "0"
                              End If
                              

                              Second, Button1 is a horrible name for a button. Change it to something meaningful, like "OkButton", so you know without thinking which button it's referring to on your form.

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                              • A Ammar_Ahmad

                                Alright. So here is the exact issue with all the pictures and everything. I have a Form which has a FlowLayoutPanel, which has a UserControl on it. That Usercontrol has a Button on it. The initial text of that Button is "0" But I want to change that to "1" if it is a "0" and change it back to "0" if it is a "1" So this is the code I used on the UserControl which has the Button on it:

                                Public Class UserControl1

                                Private Sub Button1\_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
                                    If Button1.Text = "0" Then
                                        Button1.Text = "1"
                                    ElseIf Button1.Text = "1" Then
                                        Button1.Text = "0"
                                    End If
                                End Sub
                                

                                End Class

                                But when I click on Button1, the event does get fired but the text of the Button1, that is on the UserControl which is drawn on FlowLayoutPanel doesn't get changed.

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                                javadadabi
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                                Dear ammar ahmad there was no user control name usercontrol1 in your solution. I saw your coding,you are more expert than me. I didnt run your program at all. Would you please tell me what this code is for?

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                                • A Ammar_Ahmad

                                  Alright. So here is the exact issue with all the pictures and everything. I have a Form which has a FlowLayoutPanel, which has a UserControl on it. That Usercontrol has a Button on it. The initial text of that Button is "0" But I want to change that to "1" if it is a "0" and change it back to "0" if it is a "1" So this is the code I used on the UserControl which has the Button on it:

                                  Public Class UserControl1

                                  Private Sub Button1\_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
                                      If Button1.Text = "0" Then
                                          Button1.Text = "1"
                                      ElseIf Button1.Text = "1" Then
                                          Button1.Text = "0"
                                      End If
                                  End Sub
                                  

                                  End Class

                                  But when I click on Button1, the event does get fired but the text of the Button1, that is on the UserControl which is drawn on FlowLayoutPanel doesn't get changed.

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                                  Try changing the sub to:

                                  Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
                                  If Button1.Text = "0" Then
                                  Button1.Text = "1"
                                  Else
                                  Button1.Text = "0"
                                  End If
                                  End Sub

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                                  • D Dave Kreskowiak

                                    First, you don't need ElseIf in this case. It should just be:

                                    If Button1.Text = "0" Then
                                        Button1.Text = "1"
                                    Else
                                        Button1.Text = "0"
                                    End If
                                    

                                    Second, Button1 is a horrible name for a button. Change it to something meaningful, like "OkButton", so you know without thinking which button it's referring to on your form.

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                                    Ammar_Ahmad
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                                    Still doesn't work.

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                                      Dear ammar ahmad there was no user control name usercontrol1 in your solution. I saw your coding,you are more expert than me. I didnt run your program at all. Would you please tell me what this code is for?

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                                      Ammar_Ahmad
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                                      It is there... it should be under Form1. This is Twitter client that I am working on.

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                                        Try changing the sub to:

                                        Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
                                        If Button1.Text = "0" Then
                                        Button1.Text = "1"
                                        Else
                                        Button1.Text = "0"
                                        End If
                                        End Sub

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                                        Ammar_Ahmad
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                                        nope. not working.

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                                          Still doesn't work.

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                                          I have no idea what you're doing wrong because this works fine. I wiped up this little example in about a minute:

                                          Private Sub TestButton\_MouseDown(sender As Object, e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles TestButton.MouseDown
                                              ChangeButtonText(TestButton)
                                          End Sub
                                          
                                          Private Sub TestButton\_MouseUp(sender As Object, e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles TestButton.MouseUp
                                              ChangeButtonText(TestButton)
                                          End Sub
                                          
                                          Private Sub ChangeButtonText(ByRef target As Button)
                                              If target.Text = "0" Then
                                                  target.Text = "1"
                                              Else
                                                  target.Text = "0"
                                              End If
                                          End Sub
                                          

                                          If you want the button to change text like a toggle, just remove the MouseUp handler. Truthfully, I'd be creating my own button control to wrap this functionality and overriding the OnMouseDown and OnMouseUp methods to do this. I wouldn't be doing it using event handlers. But, since this method is easier to understand, here you go...

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