Is it possible to change the text of a GUI button after it is already declared?

[houstonl3]

 

I have a GUI that contains around 11 buttons that make my job easier, and one of them calculates a percentage. As of now, I have that percentage displaying in a label also in the GUI, but I'd like for it to update the percentage ON THE BUTTON TEXT instead of having to use a label. This may not be possible, because all of the places I've tried it in, in my code, disables the button once it changes the text of the button. Is there any way to do this? I hope this isn't too confusing. I can provide code if needed, however, I didn't because it doesn't seem necessary for this type of issue. Any help is appreciated. Thanks,

 

[ahmet]

This works

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>

$hMain=GUICreate("test")
$idButton=GUICtrlCreateButton("Calculate",10,10,100)
GUISetState()

While 1
    Switch GUIGetMsg()
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
        Case $idButton
            GUICtrlSetData($idButton,Random(0,1))
    EndSwitch
WEnd

Posting your code might help.

[l3ill]

You can change the Button text by using

GUICtrlSetData( $buttonID, "Something")

As mentioned above^^^

Just place it somewhere in the function that should update it.

Replace "Something" with your Percentage variable.

Edited April 6, 2015 by l3ill

[iamtheky]

as the above, with a timer, showing that the button still works fine

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>

$hMain=GUICreate("test")
$idButton=GUICtrlCreateButton("Calculate",10,10,100)
GUISetState()

$timer = timerinit()

While 1
    $sTime = round(timerdiff($timer))
    GUICtrlSetData($idButton, $sTime)
    Switch GUIGetMsg()
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
        Case $idButton
            msgbox(0, '' , $sTime)
    EndSwitch
    sleep(10)
WEnd

[houstonl3]

Thanks guys. Sorry, I kind of feel like a noob now. I'm a little new to this. I really appreciate it though.

[Melba23]

houstonl3,

 

Sorry, I kind of feel like a noob now

No need to apologise - we were all at that point once.

As a newcomer to AutoIt, reading the Help file (at least the first few sections - Using AutoIt, Tutorials and the first couple of References) will help you enormously. You should also look at this excellent tutorial - you will find other tutorials in the Wiki (the link is at the top of the page).

M23