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Disabling button

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Topic: Disabling button

Posted By: Carter
Subject: Disabling button
Date 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

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Posted By: jcollier
Date 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

Posted By: jcollier
Date 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.

Posted By: Carter
Date 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??

Posted By: jcollier
Date 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.