Determing the Enabled or Disabled State of a Control

[Walt Thompson]

Is it possible to determine programmatically if a control is enabled or disabled?

CONTROL SHOW STATE does not provide this information as the attached code snippet demonstrates:

    CONTROL SHOW STATE hDlg, %Input105, %SW_SHOWNOACTIVATE TO i
    CONTROL SHOW STATE hDlg, %Input106, %SW_SHOWNOACTIVATE TO j
    
    ?"In 1 State: " + FORMAT$(i) + $CR + "In 2 State: " + FORMAT$(j),,"State of In 1 and In 2"

If you enable %Input105 and disable %Input106 and then call the above code the values of i and j (both are defined as DWORD) will be the same. I would have expected the values of i and j to be different.

[Paul Squires]

If IsTrue IsWindowEnabled( GetDlgItem(hDlg, %Input105) ) Then
   ' Enabled
Else
  ' Not Enabled
End If

[Michael Mattias]

Visible/Not Visible is not the same as enabled/disabled. Two different things.

[Paul Squires]

It certainly pays for programmers to invest some time in learning basic Win API functions. It can make life so much easier. IsWindowEnabled / IsWindowVisible.

If IsTrue IsWindowVisible( GetDlgItem(hDlg, %Input105) ) Then
   ' Enabled
Else
  ' Not Enabled
End If

[Walt Thompson]

Many Thanks gentlemen!

[Walt Thompson]

Many Thanks gentlemen! The IsWindowEnabled function solved the problem.