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  1. Dec 14th, 2011, 08:31 PM #1
    chasmchasr
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    Question Change disabled buttons appearance

    Hi there,

    How do you maintain the appearance of a disabled button in VB.Net? Basically, when I click a button, I want its background colour and font colour to stay exactly the same as before I clicked it.

    I'm very new to this so a simple explanation would be appreciated! Thanks
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  2. Dec 14th, 2011, 09:04 PM #2
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    Re: Change disabled buttons appearance

    It's a very bad idea to make a disabled control look the same as an enabled control. Visual cues like that change of appearance are very important to a user in a GUI application. Take those away and your application behaves in an unexpected manner, thus causing confusion for the user. That is never a good thing.

    If you really must do something like that then you'd have to draw the appearance of your Button yourself.
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