How to lock button in vb.net

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Hi , I am trying to lock a button in my form , i have tried with the following

btnSubmit_CrtIss.Enabled = False
btnReset_CrtIss.Enabled = False

but it looks awful, just like a greyed out text box, my goal is to prevent users from clicking those buttons.
Please help

Posted 29-Jul-10 0:50am

souvikd

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#realJSOP · Answer 1 · 2010-07-29T01:21:00

You could just eat the event if the button is locked. However, making the button disabled is the standard indisutry way of saying "you can't use this control right now".

If you don't like the grayed-out appearance, you could always completely hide them, but I can tell you from a number of years of experience designing user interfaces that users don't really like it when stuff just disappears from the screen.

Kschuler · Answer 2 · 2010-07-29T06:13:00

I've had customers complain that when textboxes are disabled or even just readonly they can't read the value in them. To get around things like that I have a variable that tracks when things are supposed to be read-only. Then every event for those controls just gets skipped when that variable is set to true. So, something like this:

Dim boolMakeReadOnly as Boolean = True

Private Sub btnSubmit_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnSubmit.Click
If boolMakeReadOnly Then Return 'This exits the event

'Original code for the submit button (gets skipped if boolMakeReadOnly is true)

End Sub

Yusuf · Answer 3 · 2010-07-29T08:04:00

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I don't know if this is possible, give it a shot

<br />
btnSubmit_CrtIss.Readonly= False<br />
btnReset_CrtIss.Readonly= False

Posted 29-Jul-10 8:04am

Yusuf

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souvikd 29-Jul-10 14:51pm

i have already tried that, readonly doesnt work for buttons

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