Disabling button

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   Hi, I'm trying out this software and i seem to have most of it working.  What i'm having problems with is being able to disable a button??  I  checked the tutorials and it only shows how to use "disabled icons" for disabled buttons.  could someone helpe me out?

Thanks

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Carter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 13 March 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote Carter Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Disabling button Posted: 13 March 2007 at 8:28am
	Hi, I'm trying out this software and i seem to have most of it working. What i'm having problems with is being able to disable a button?? I checked the tutorials and it only shows how to use "disabled icons" for disabled buttons. could someone helpe me out? Thanks

jcollier Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 15 February 2006 Status: Offline Points: 250	Post Options Post Reply Quote jcollier Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 13 March 2007 at 11:31am
	Try declaring a global boolean variable then in the Update event set enabled propert of the button to the variable. In General Declarations: dim blnBatchDetails as boolean Const ID_BATCHDETAILS = 1 in CommandBars_Update event: Select Case Control.ID Case ID_BATCHDETAILS Control.Enabled = blnBatchDetails End Select

jcollier Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 15 February 2006 Status: Offline Points: 250	Post Options Post Reply Quote jcollier Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 13 March 2007 at 11:33am
	Sorry, I should have followed up. When you want to disable or enable a button, all you have to do is change the value of the boolean variable and the update event will do the rest.

Carter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 13 March 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote Carter Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 13 March 2007 at 7:58pm
	thanks for the reply. I am not sure what you mean. I created a Commandbar object called "CommandBars" (like the sample). I did see the UpdateEvent when i clicked the events button in the properties window and it showed up in the code behind file. I still don't know how to call the event though??

jcollier Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 15 February 2006 Status: Offline Points: 250	Post Options Post Reply Quote jcollier Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 14 March 2007 at 8:53am
	You don't have to call the event. It runs automatically every few milliseconds. Just put the Select Case in the Update Event. If you have a case for each of the buttons that you may want to enable/disable, the update event will update their enabled status to the value of the boolean variable every time it runs. It sounds like a lot of overhead but you shouldn't notice any performance problems.