Buttons.visible?

Im using a streamreader and a streamwriter, what im trying to do is record wether a button is visible at the time the stream writer writes. I have a form that the buttons are visible sometimes then after certan actions they are not and I need to keep track of that.

well why dont you just check for the Visible property of your button?

This is what i have, the only thing is the its not recorcing the .visible part!



Dim st1 As New System.IO.StreamReader(New System.IO.FileStream("c:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\" & fname, IO.FileMode.OpenOrCreate))
form2.TextBox32.Text = st1.ReadLine
form2.signinfri.Visible = st1.Read
form2.signoutfri.Visible = st1.Read


Dim sw1 As New System.IO.StreamWriter(New System.IO.FileStream("c:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\" & fname, IO.FileMode.Truncate))
sw1.WriteLine(TextBox32.Text)
sw1.Write(signinfri.Visible)
sw1.Write(signoutfri.Visible)

If I was you, I would take advantage of the BinaryReader/Writer classes. These classes can read and write data from a stream directly into typed variables.

Code:

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private void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
        FileStream outStream = File.Create(@"c:\settings.dat");
        BinaryWriter bwSettings = new BinaryWriter(outStream);

        // save button visibility state
        bwSettings.Write((bool)this.button1.Visible);
        bwSettings.Flush();
        bwSettings.Close();
        FileStream inStream = File.OpenRead(@"c:\settings.dat");
        BinaryReader brSettings = new BinaryReader(inStream);
            bool visiblity = brSettings.ReadBoolean();
        MessageBox.Show(visiblity.ToString());
}

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just try .visible.tostring instead of .visible