how to cancel checkChanged or click event for a checkbox?

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Is there a cancel argument for cancelling if you want to check or uncheck a
checkbox?

In the checkChanged event of a checkbox I ask the user if they are sure they
want to check/uncheck something. If No, I want to cancel the check or
uncheck and cancel the click event. Right now I have a form level boolean
checkvar that I set based on the user's response. If No then when entering
the click event I don't perform various actions. Is there a way to prevent
the click event from happening if the user selects to Not continue with the
check change?

Thanks,
Rich

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On Aug 7, 12:22 pm, Rich <R...@discussio ns.microsoft.co mwrote:

Is there a cancel argument for cancelling if you want to check or uncheck a
checkbox?

In the checkChanged event of a checkbox I ask the user if they are sure they
want to check/uncheck something. If No, I want to cancel the check or
uncheck and cancel the click event. Right now I have a form level boolean
checkvar that I set based on the user's response. If No then when entering
the click event I don't perform various actions. Is there a way to prevent
the click event from happening if the user selects to Not continue with the
check change?

Thanks,
Rich

Off the top of my head I would do this:

Private Sub checkBox_Checke dChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal
e As EventArgs)
If MessageBox.Show ("Are you sure", "Please Confirm",
MessageBoxButto ns.YesNo) = Windows.Forms.D ialogResult.No Then
Dim cb As CheckBox = DirectCast(send er, CheckBox)
RemoveHandler cb.CheckedChang ed, AddressOf
checkBox_Checke dChanged
cb.Checked = Not cb.Checked
AddHandler cb.CheckedChang ed, AddressOf
checkBox_Checke dChanged
End If
End Sub

That should revert the checkbox to it's previous state if the user
does not confirm their choice. The RemoveHandler/AddHandler is used to
prevent the changing of the checkbox's checked state from triggering
the event handler recursively.

Thanks,

Seth Rowe

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Thank you. I see your method will affect any checkbox on the form. The is
definitely more efficient than the other thing I tried.

I changed my form level boolean to a boolean within the click event of the
checkbox. upon clicking - the boolean takes on the value of the checkstate
-- this is to prevent the recursion thing as you noted. Then I ask the user
yes/no in the click event. If no, I set the checkstate to the opposite of
the boolean.

This appears to be working, and I do have several checkboxes, but this
particular one is the only one where the users asked me to implement this
checking mechanism.

With your mechanism, you only need to add the code once (and perhaps specify
which checkboxes to affect). My mechanism would require the same code for
all the checkboxes. . So even though, I only need this to happen to one
checkbox (for now), I think I will go with your mechansim.

Thanks again,
Rich

"rowe_newsgroup s" wrote:

On Aug 7, 12:22 pm, Rich <R...@discussio ns.microsoft.co mwrote:

Is there a cancel argument for cancelling if you want to check or uncheck a
checkbox?

In the checkChanged event of a checkbox I ask the user if they are sure they
want to check/uncheck something. If No, I want to cancel the check or
uncheck and cancel the click event. Right now I have a form level boolean
checkvar that I set based on the user's response. If No then when entering
the click event I don't perform various actions. Is there a way to prevent
the click event from happening if the user selects to Not continue with the
check change?

Thanks,
Rich

Off the top of my head I would do this:

Private Sub checkBox_Checke dChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal
e As EventArgs)
If MessageBox.Show ("Are you sure", "Please Confirm",
MessageBoxButto ns.YesNo) = Windows.Forms.D ialogResult.No Then
Dim cb As CheckBox = DirectCast(send er, CheckBox)
RemoveHandler cb.CheckedChang ed, AddressOf
checkBox_Checke dChanged
cb.Checked = Not cb.Checked
AddHandler cb.CheckedChang ed, AddressOf
checkBox_Checke dChanged
End If
End Sub

That should revert the checkbox to it's previous state if the user
does not confirm their choice. The RemoveHandler/AddHandler is used to
prevent the changing of the checkbox's checked state from triggering
the event handler recursively.

Thanks,

Seth Rowe