Disable click on picturebox

[aewarnick]

I have a picturebox that is clickable on my form. I would like to disable the click at a certain time but when I use

 

pictureBox1.Enabled=false;

 

to disable it the gif animation stops. How can I disable the click without stopping the animation?

[Robby]

You can set Lock = True or in th Click event Focus on another control

[aewarnick]

How would I make this click event only do these commands once and another set every other time it is clicked? Use a while or for structure with a static variable?

 

private void pictureBox1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)

{

string outputStr = "";

foreach(char myChar in x.Text)

{//even gets spaces:

if(!Char.IsSymbol(myChar)&&(!Char.IsLetter(myChar)))

{

outputStr += myChar.ToString();

}

}

[aewarnick]

Also, this does not compile:

 

pictureBox1.Lock=true;

[Robby]

Sorry, the Locked is only for moving and resizing at design time only.

[Robby]

At which time do want to enable or disable it?

[aewarnick]

Anytime

[Robby]

No, you said you want to be able to enable/disable it. what is your criteria for doing so?

[aewarnick]

Well, I would like to be able to set a limit on how many times the user can press that button at certain times.

[Robby]

You're not getting me, what constitutes those "certain times"?

[aewarnick]

Let's just make it simple and say that the picture_Click will be disabled after they use it once.

[Volte]

I'm not totally sure if this is a great way to do it, but it's one way. If

you want to stop the code in the click event from firing, you could

simply unhook the event handler for the click event.

 

The code:

pictureBox1.Click -= new System.EventHandler(pictureBox1_Click);

Will stop all click events from being processed and sent to the

'pictureBox1_Click' sub.

[aewarnick]

Works great! But there probably is anotherway to do it.

[Volte]

Definately there is. Create a boolean variable, like this:

bool doClick = true;

at the top of your form (above all

subs and functions), and then in the click event, do it like this:

private void pictureBox1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{ 
 if (doClick) {
   // do whatever you need to do in the click event
   doClick = false;
 }
}

Set it back to true if you want to re-enable the button.

[aewarnick]

That is it!!