Increment button

Mark P. · July 7th, 2011, 04:35 PM

I'm trying to build a project for calculating the number of objects seen. What I want to do is create a button on the form that will increment a text box, pretty simple. I seem to be having trouble getting the sytnax correct. So far I have
private void segbutton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
int seg = 0:
seg++;
segtextBox.Text = seg.?

}

Can one of you experts steer me in the right direction? thanks

ChristianNagel · July 7th, 2011, 05:38 PM

because the Text property is of type string, you need to do seg.ToString(). However, the value is always "1" as you create seg within the handler every time the button is clicked. You need to declare the variable seg outside of the handler to keep its value.

Mark P. · July 7th, 2011, 06:19 PM

Christian, I knew the answer would be simple. Thanks alot for your help.

mmorgan30 · May 1st, 2014, 04:31 PM

if you want the button and the Text box to keep track of the value its self try this.

Code:

private void segbutton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
        // if the box is empty set seg to 0 other wise convert contents of text box to an int32 and set seg
        // will be empty on first post back of form if not set at client side
        int seg =  String.IsNullOrEmpty( segtextBox.Text.Trim() ) ? 0 : Convert.ToInt32(segtextBox.Text.Trim());
        segtextBox.Text = (seg+=1).ToString();

}