I'm developing a simple application to allow the user to solve the towers of Hanoi puzzle.
I need to be able to conditionally disable some buttons on the interface.
(i.e if a particular move is against the rules, the button for that move must be disable).
How can I do this?
you should do some check after a move, and see if which buttons are allowed or not, and a simple button.Enabled = false should disable your button
You can can button disable on move event and if move is against the rules, set button.Enabled = false
Or you can simply ignore the button action on button click event if move is against the rules.
Edit
You may have already events to move the puzzle, on those events you can validate the rules.
for example, in your your event call method which enable, disable buttons based on rules
private void CheckState()
{
if(!CheckRuleOne())
{
button1.Enabled = false;
}
// more rules and validations ....
}
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What's the name of the default red button with an X in the middle at the top right?
EDIT: I want to get the event associated with clicking that button.
You cannot disable the close box on its own using in properties window like you can with the minimize and maximize boxes. You can however disable the control box which contains them all.
Setting ControlBox to false will remove the minimize, maximize and close buttons.
You might want to consider why you are doing this though, as it's generally a good idea to let users quit out of windows using the close button (think of it as a cancel button).
EDIT:
You can handle when the user clicks on that close button using either the Closing or the Closed events of the Form. The difference between the two is that the Closing event fires before the form has closed (meaning that you can veto the closure by setting the Cancel property of the FormClosingEventArgs to true), whereas the Closed event fires after the form has actually closed.
it is possible to hook all messages goes to a form by implementing ImessageFilter interface
this link can be use full Using IMessageFilter to create a generic filter for operating system events
You can disable it by setting the ControlBox to false in the form properties, or in code like the following:
this.ControlBox = false;
Setting this will also hide the minimize and maximize buttons if that is OK. If not, the solution is a bit more elaborate.
Simple question: I have a WinForms button, and I want to make it both (conditionally) invisible and disabled (to be sure that if someone clicks in the space where the invisible button lives, it won't activate it.) Does button.Visible = false also imply button.Enabled = false, or do I need to set/reset both properties at the appropriate time?
If the control is not visible, it is effectively disabled. Clicking in the area where it would appear (or rolling in and out of that area) were it visible will not cause an event to fire.
EDIT: To clarify, based on other responses and comments, the button is not disabled and underlying event functionality is still available programmatically, but the button will not be physically available/visible on the form and the user will not be able to interact with it in any way (unless you, as the programmer, provide another method programmatically).
Setting Visible to false does not change the Enabled property. However, setting the property to false does make the control effectively not even there. If you click in the empty space left by an invisible the button, the button's click event won't fire.
I don't think it implies it is disabled. It just means the control is not visible on the form hence there is no way to perform the action on it. If you set the visible property to false and then invoked the Click event through code it would process. However, if you set the Enabled property to False I would imagine it wouldn't
Pretty sure if .Visible = false, the '_Click' action is disabled. For instance, if you .PerformClick() in your code, and .Visible = true, _Click will execute. If false, _Click will not execute.
In one certain case I want to disable the tabpannel so that the controlls in the tab panel are disabled.
I want to disable the tab pannel but still I want ennable the controls in tab pannel.the need is User cannot switch over to the annother tabpannel in a certain senerio.
How can I do this requirement?.
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dinesh
Use something besides a tab panel.
It is not standard behavior for a tab panel to have one tab "stuck" so that the user cannot move to the other tabs. You're going to throw users off if you do this.
What you are after sounds like a modal dialog. It sounds like you don't want the users to move away from a certain screen until they're doing entering some data or some such. The modal dialog is built for this purpose.
There is no direct way to disable Tab Page, only you can remove it. But in your case, you can't remove the Tab, So I think you need to put some code in the Tab_SelectionIndex change event. And when ever the Tab index comes, set it back to another one.
Try this code
private void tabControl1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (tabControl1.SelectedIndex == 1)
{
tabControl1.SelectedIndex = -1;
}
}
In addition to anuraj's answer, set the colour of the tab text to the disabled text colour state, so it is a visual cue it is "disabled".
For a certain inputform, I'd like to make it possible to do input with the keyboard. I know how to read the keys through KeyPressed and KeyUp, but the problem is that when a control has got the focus and the user presses the Enter key, that control receives the a Click event. Is it possible to prevent that behaviour ? Or is it possible to know if a Click Event was fired by the mouse or by the keyboard ?
Does this help? From Microsoft Knowledge Base
Move the Button's code from the button.Click() to a button.MouseClick()
This would be easier if you could describe the situation and exact behaviour you want... :)
You can set:
Form.KeyPreview = True
This sends Key Events to the Form first, and then to the Control. This gives you the opportunity to catch Key Events on the form and 'cancel' them:
e.Handled = True
More info
Also make sure you haven't set the AcceptButton for the Form!
You can also listen for keyboard events and filter out keys.
I mean the small exit/cancel button marked with an X in the top right hand corner. I want to implement a Logon dialog box that accepts a username/password so obviously I don't want the user to be able to dismiss the modal pop up. If it is not possible to remove or disable the button then is there some way I can intercept the closing event and stop it closing?
You can use the HasCloseButton property of the ChildWindow to hide the close button.
Please let me know if this helps.
Ezequiel Jadib
The code below prevents a ChildWindow from ever closing, effectively disabling the X button. Modify to suit your business logic.
protected override void OnClosing(System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs e)
{
base.OnClosing(e);
e.Cancel = true;
}
Select child window and Press F4. It will show the property window. Then goto HasCloseButton property and uncheck the checkbox.
Enjoy
HasCloseButton="False" ..
This property used to hide the 'X' button In ChildWindow