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user3755946
user3755946

Reputation: 804

Get the text value of the button that was clicked

I am trying to get the text value from a button that was clicked. In my head, it looks something like this:

private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    string s =  thisbutton.text
}

Upvotes: 20

Views: 78056

Answers (6)

Madivad
Madivad

Reputation: 3337

This was asked some time ago and the platform in my case may be a little different to what the OP used but I arrived at the same question for GTK.

I am developing in Xamarin / Visual Studio in OSX using GTK2+, and for me the original accepted answer is close, but yields an error that .Text doesn't exist. In my case, it needs to be Label. This works for me:

protected void Button_Clicked(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Button btn = sender as Button;

    lblWhichButton.Text = btn.Label;
    if (btn.Label == "<<<" )
        i--;
    else
        i++;
    lblCounter.Text = "" + i;
}

Upvotes: 0

Ramgy Borja
Ramgy Borja

Reputation: 2458

try and apply this example in your button event

private void button_click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   var getValue = ((Button)sender).Text; //this will get the value of the text using sender
}

Upvotes: 0

asdasd
asdasd

Reputation: 21

In every build in event handler there are 2 parameters sender and e.Sender takes reference to that object which fires the event.The second parameter e holds some information about the event(such as the location of pointer and other of this kind) You need only bring it to Button type and get what information you want

Upvotes: 1

Wael Sakhri
Wael Sakhri

Reputation: 397

Just cast the sender Object to a Button Object and access the text attribute : 

protected void btn_Click (object sender, EventArgs e){
   Button btn = sender as Button;
   string s= btn.Text
}

Upvotes: 5

Fruchtzwerg
Fruchtzwerg

Reputation: 11389

Should be like this:

private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
  string s =  this.button2.Text;
}

Upvotes: 2

Alex
Alex

Reputation: 23300

The object which fired the event is sender, so:

private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    string s = (sender as Button).Text;
}

Upvotes: 48

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