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C# - How to save TextBox and CheckBox in User Settings

I have a Windows Form Application, where the User can input numbers into three different TextBoxes. I want to save these numbers by checking the Checkbox next to it, so when the Application gets closed and re-opened you don't have to put in the numbers again.
I have added the Properties to the User Settings and implemented the Code below, but when I input a number and re-open the Application, nothing is shown and they aren't saved in the user.config file.
Any help is greatly appreciated as I can't find my mistake.
private void MainForm_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Text = Properties.Settings.Default.title;
chkBox1.Checked = Properties.Settings.Default.checkBox;
chkBox2.Checked = Properties.Settings.Default.checkBox;
chkBox3.Checked = Properties.Settings.Default.checkBox;
txtBox1.Text = Properties.Settings.Default.textBox;
txtBox2.Text = Properties.Settings.Default.textBox;
txtBox3.Text = Properties.Settings.Default.textBox;
this.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(Properties.Settings.Default.PX, Properties.Settings.Default.PY);
}
private void MainForm_FormClosing(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e)
{
Properties.Settings.Default.checkBox = chkBox1.Checked;
Properties.Settings.Default.checkBox = chkBox2.Checked;
Properties.Settings.Default.checkBox = chkBox3.Checked;
Properties.Settings.Default.textBox = txtBox1.Text;
Properties.Settings.Default.textBox = txtBox2.Text;
Properties.Settings.Default.textBox = txtBox3.Text;
Properties.Settings.Default.PX = this.Location.X;
Properties.Settings.Default.PY = this.Location.Y;
Properties.Settings.Default.Save();
}
private void chkBox1_Checked(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
this.Text = txtBox1.Text;
}
private void chkBox2_Checked(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
this.Text = txtBox2.Text;
}
private void chkBox3_Checked(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
this.Text = txtBox3.Text;
}

Why not use databinding to save changes automatically. You don't need to replicate the code on form_load and form_closing events.
The best explanation I have for control data binds is that they provide two way model update between a control properties and object properties.
More Info https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.windows.forms.control.databindings?view=netcore-3.1
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
chkBox1.DataBindings.Add("Checked", Properties.Settings.Default, "Checked1",true, DataSourceUpdateMode.OnPropertyChanged);
chkBox2.DataBindings.Add("Checked", Properties.Settings.Default, "Checked2",true, DataSourceUpdateMode.OnPropertyChanged);
chkBox3.DataBindings.Add("Checked", Properties.Settings.Default, "Checked3",true, DataSourceUpdateMode.OnPropertyChanged);
//you can others
}
private void Form1_FormClosing(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e)
{
//don't forget to call save on form closing
Properties.Settings.Default.Save();
}

The first part of my answer, regarding to the fact that nothing is saved when you close your application, is based on the assumption that when testing, you leave the third textbox empty
Why is nothing saved
First is why you are seeing nothing when opening your application, leading you to believe nothing was saved when closing it.
You are in the part of your code handling what happens when your application is closing, saving all of the textboxes (and checkboxes states) in the same setting
Which leads to the following
txtBox1 contains a
txtbox2 contains nothing (or an empty string if you prefer)
When saving, what is happening with your code is that in a first step, you are putting "a" into your textbox setting.
Then, you are replacing this vlue with the content of the second textbox, which is empty
(repeat for the third textbox)
The you are saving.... An empty value.
If you wish to fix this in a "naive" way, you would need a setting per textbox and checkbox.
Which would lead to code ressembling this in your Closing event handler
private void MainForm_FormClosing(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e)
{
Properties.Settings.Default.checkBox1 = chkBox1.Checked;
Properties.Settings.Default.checkBox2 = chkBox2.Checked;
Properties.Settings.Default.checkBox3 = chkBox3.Checked;
Properties.Settings.Default.textBox1 = txtBox1.Text;
Properties.Settings.Default.textBox2 = txtBox2.Text;
Properties.Settings.Default.textBox3 = txtBox3.Text;
Properties.Settings.Default.PX = this.Location.X;
Properties.Settings.Default.PY = this.Location.Y;
Properties.Settings.Default.Save();
}
Why do I say "naive", because as you've surely understood, this approach is not sustainable for a huge number of controls, but this is not the scope of the question, I'll let you research a solution on your own for this particular point.
Why are the checkbox doing nothing to determine what is saved
First, with the events available on Winforms (at least with the .NET Framework 4.5 which I used to reproduce what you had) the only events available to be notified of the checkbox state change are :
CheckedChanged
CheckStateChanged
The first is used on a binary Checkbox (checked or not)
The second on a checkbox with an uncertain state added to both of the other states.
I imagine you used the first of the two (because that is the one used by default by Visual Studio when double clicking on it in the designer).
The first issue here is that it notifiesyou that the state changed not only that it went from unchecked to checked, but the other way around too.
That means if you only want an action to be done when checking, you need to add a.... check (an if block) to skip the cases you're not interest into.
Next is the actual saving.
What you are doing in your code is just copying the textbox values in a property in your class, and that will NOT persist after closing the application.
Now there is two approach you could use to save those values into the settings, the first is to do it as soon as you check the boxes.
What you would need to do then is for each event handler to copy the value of the textbox.... directly into the settings
An example for the first textbox and checkbox :
private void chkBox1_Checked(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if(chkBox1.Checked)
{
Properties.Settings.Default.checkBox1 = chkBox1.Checked;
}
}
I'm not a huge fan though, and would prefer the second solution => to check in the closing event, before copying the value from the textbox into the settings, if the corresponding checkbox is closed.
private void Form1_FormClosing(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e)
{
if (this.chkBox1.Checked)
{
Properties.Settings.Default.textBox = txtBox1.Text;
}
[...]
}
Now that a little better, and should be working as intended.
Please note that this answer is oriented towards correcting the problem whilst using solutions that are the closest possible of your original code.

C# TextChanged event doesn't happend right away

I'm building a WinFormApplication which allow the user to drag a document into a richTextBox which is loading the files content to the richTextBox. However the TextChange-event doesn't seem to happend emedietly after the text is changed, why could this be?
private void richTextBox_DragDrop(object sender, DragEventArgs e)
{
....
....
richTextBox.Text = content;
hasBeenEdited = false;
}
private void Form1_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
....
hasBeenEdited = true;
}
In the code above I have one DragDrop-event, the content of a file replaces the current richTextBox text. However the has been edited flag first get set to false, then true. I was hoping the flag would be set to true then false. How can I fix this?
Thanks!

Using GotFocus and TextChanged simultaneously - Windows Phone

I have an AutoSuggestBox which is set to handle the events GotFocus & TextChanged simultaneously. I have cleared the text from the text box in GotFocus event. Now the problem is that when I select any of the suggestions in AutoSuggestBox, after selecting it calls the GotFocus event handler and clears the selected text from it.
This is the MainPage.xaml code using the AutoSuggestBox:
<AutoSuggestBox
x:Name="auto_text_from"
HorizontalAlignment="Left"
VerticalAlignment="Center"
PlaceholderText="Enter Source"
Height="auto"
Width="280"
GotFocus="auto_text_from_GotFocus"
TextChanged="AutoSuggestBox_TextChanged"/>
And this one is the code which I have written in MainPage.xaml.cs :
private void auto_text_from_GotFocus(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
auto_text_from.Text = "";
}
string[] PreviouslyDefinedStringArray = new string[] {"Alwar","Ajmer","Bharatpur","Bhilwara",
"Banswada","Jaipur","Jodhpur","Kota","Udaipur"};
private void AutoSuggestBox_TextChanged(AutoSuggestBox sender,AutoSuggestBoxTextChangedEventArgs args)
{
List<string> myList = new List<string>();
foreach (string myString in PreviouslyDefinedStringArray)
{
if (myString.ToLower().Contains(sender.Text.ToLower()) == true)
{
myList.Add(myString);
}
}
sender.ItemsSource = myList;
}
I want to use both of the event handlers. GotFocus for clearing the data of Text box, and TextChanged for showing the suggestions of writing the text in it.
Please suggest me any way to do the same.
Thanks in Advance :)

If AutoSuggestBox has an event to handle the selection of a suggested word, like "SuggestionChosen", a possibile solution is using a private flag managed between the various handlers.
Set a private field:
private bool _isSelectingSuggestion;
Link a method-handler like OnSuggestionChosen to the event SuggestionChosen and implement it like that:
private void OnSuggestionChosen(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
_isSelectingSuggestion = true;
}
Then, in GotFocus, check the flag like this:
private void auto_text_from_GotFocus(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
if (_isSelectingSuggestion)
e.Handled = true;
else
auto_text_from.Text = "";
_isSelectingSuggestion = false;
}
Obviously this works only if SuggestionChosen is raised before GotFocus: when GotFocus begins, it proceeds like: "ok, I've got focus because a suggestion was chosen just a moment ago? If it's true, I must not clear my Text! Otherwise, I shall clear it!".
Let me know it this work for you!

#MK87 : Yeah it worked with little bit of changes !! :)
private bool _isSelectingSuggestion;
private void OnSuggestionChosen(AutoSuggestBox sender, AutoSuggestBoxSuggestionChosenEventArgs args)
{
_isSelectingSuggestion = true;
}
private void auto_text_from_GotFocus(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
if (!_isSelectingSuggestion)
auto_text_from.Text = "";
_isSelectingSuggestion = false;
}
I had to remove this line:
e.Handled == true;
as it was giving me error as RoutedEventArgs does not contain a definition for 'Handled'.
Thanks for your help :) :)

TextBox shown in the wrong place after a scroll down

i have a from c# and i want to show text Box after a click in a check box.
but when i scroll down, and check , the text Box is shown in the wrong place !!!
the text Boxes must be in the same level with check Boxes.
private void checkBox1_Checkedchanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
textBox1.Visible = true;
}
and changing the Location of the text Box don't give good results !
thanks for help.

You are running into an awkward quirk of the Panel control, it only scrolls controls that are visible. When you make it visible in your code, it will have the wrong Location property if you've used the scrollbar. You will need to make the correction yourself. Make it look like this:
private void checkBox1_Checkedchanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (!textBox1.Visible) {
textBox1.Location = new Point(textBox1.Left + panel1.AutoScrollPosition.X,
textBox1.Top + panel1.AutoScrollPosition.Y);
textBox1.Visible = true;
}
}
A better alternative is to use the Enabled property instead, also much less disorienting for the user. Set it to False in the designer and then:
private void checkBox1_Checkedchanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
textBox1.Enabled = true;
}

In the WinForms DevExpress XtraWizard control, how can one hide the back button?

I know that if I set the WizardStyle of an XtraWizard control to WizardAero, it will remove or hide the back button from the first page instead of simply disabling it, as can be seen here. I want the same behaviour, but I want to keep the WizardStyle as Wizard97.
Is this possible, and if so, how?

One way to do this would be to use the CustomizeCommandButtons event on the WizardControl.
private void wizardControl1_CustomizeCommandButtons(object sender, CustomizeCommandButtonsEventArgs e)
{
e.PrevButton.Visible = false;
}
If you only want to hide it on the first page
private void wizardControl1_CustomizeCommandButtons(object sender, CustomizeCommandButtonsEventArgs e)
{
if(wizardControl1.SelectedPageIndex == 0)
e.PrevButton.Visible = false;
}
It seems like it will reset the visibility each time (so you don't need to toggle it back on). Anyway, I think this is what you're looking for.
http://documentation.devexpress.com/#WindowsForms/DevExpressXtraWizardWizardControl_CustomizeCommandButtonstopic

You can also set your own fields to the wizard buttons and then use these anywhere in your code. This will, for example, allow you to hide/disable the "Next" button until all fields page have been completed.
private void NodeConfigurationWizardCustomizeCommandButtons(object sender, CustomizeCommandButtonsEventArgs e)
{
_nextButton = e.NextButton;}
private void GetRowsButtonClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var rowList = ServiceClient.GetAvailableRows();
var rowsReturned = rowList.Count > 0;
_nextButton.Button.Enabled = rowsReturned ;}