Hide button text

Question

_{Sunday, November 1, 2009 2:51 PM}

I have button1 on my form.
button1.Text = "blabla";

Now I want to hide this "blabla".

All replies (6)

_{Sunday, November 1, 2009 3:44 PM ✅Answered}

you can make a new classButton which holds a string with the text you want the rest of your program to read. 
then use property to get/set this value and methods to show/hide the text on the button which the user sees.

here's what i wrote (my test form has two buttons already the events shown below):

namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        classButton newButton = new classButton();
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            newButton.HiddenText = "my hidden button";
            newButton.showText();
            Controls.Add(newButton);
            newButton.AutoSize = true;
            newButton.Top = 5; newButton.Left = 5;
            newButton.Visible = true;
        }
        private void btnHideButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { newButton.hideText(); }
        private void btnShowButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { newButton.showText(); }
    }

    public class classButton : Button
    {
        public string strHiddenText;

        public string HiddenText
        {
            get { return strHiddenText; }
            set { strHiddenText = value; }
        }

        public void hideText() { Text = ""; }
        public void showText() { Text = strHiddenText; }
    }
}

my code is perfect until i don't find a bug

_{Sunday, November 1, 2009 3:05 PM}

you could just set it to an empty string :

button1.Text = "";

or set the forecolor = backcolor

button1.ForeColor = button1.BackColor;

hope that helps,
BadButBitmy code is perfect until i don't find a bug

_{Sunday, November 1, 2009 3:13 PM}

Or use button1.Hide();

Noam B
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_{Sunday, November 1, 2009 3:17 PM}

I cant do button1.text = ""; because this text is used by other functions in my program...

I cant use the same backcolor because I have a background image on my button...

I cant hide button because it must be there...

_{Sunday, November 1, 2009 3:45 PM}

Put your button's text also in tag property of button.

and when you set the text property to "" read the value from tag property.

_{Sunday, November 1, 2009 3:48 PM}

Just use the

button1.text = " ";

and

button1.text = "blabla";

for returning the text value of the button

:)