Change font color on Button

[CoachBarker]

I would like to change the font color on my buttons when the button has focus, but have no clue where to set the color. As far as I can tell there is no focus event, I tried it on the enter event but nothing happened.

 

[InertiaM]

Edit: see post #7 for correct solution

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

I recommend using the Enter/Leave events instead of GotFocus/LostFocus

 

[CoachBarker]

I am actually doing this in C #, but I can convert it. When I use the enter event, I created one event to handle 5 buttons, only the button that I set the evnt handler on changes color.

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

I am actually doing this in C #, but I can convert it. When I use the enter event, I created one event to handle 5 buttons, only the button that I set the evnt handler on changes color.

Which is what you would normally want, correct?

 

[CoachBarker]

No, what I was looking for was as the buttons are tabbed through or has focus or enters, on the Active Button the font will change to another color.

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

We're saying the same thing, make a new project, add 4 buttons to the form and paste this code in the code window:

Public Class Form1

    Private m_HighLightColor As Color = Color.Blue

    Private Sub Button4_Enter(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button4.Enter, Button3.Enter, Button2.Enter, Button1.Enter
        DirectCast(sender, Button).BackColor = m_HighLightColor
    End Sub

    Private Sub Button4_Leave(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button4.Leave, Button3.Leave, Button2.Leave, Button1.Leave
        DirectCast(sender, Button).BackColor = SystemColors.Control
    End Sub
End Class

In this case I'm changing the backcolor, not the forecolor, just to nudge you in the right direction.

 

[CoachBarker]

I appreciate thhe nudge, have a good one.

 

[InertiaM]

Out of a matter of interest Juggalo, why Enter and Leave as opposed to GotFocus and LostFocus?

 

[JohnH]

Out of a matter of interest Juggalo, why Enter and Leave as opposed to GotFocus and LostFocus?

Read the note in help: Control.GotFocus Event (System.Windows.Forms)

 

[CoachBarker]

A question along these lines of using the enter event. So all the controls with a backcolor, I set them to blue on enter and back to control on leave. I picked the first textbox on the form and double clicked in the Enter event in the properties.

Now I also have a text box that has to do a calculation on the enter event that is included with all the other controls, so the the user can see the data before moving on. Will one event cancel out the other.

I went into the designer and rewrote the enter event for the control doing the calculation and after running the application the event was gone.

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

You can have two subs handle a single event for a control and both will fire when the event is raised. As for what order they're fired in is another question and I don't know the answer.

 

[CoachBarker]

Thanks, that is good to know, I will have to look into it a little deeper.