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Enable and Disable Buttons, Labels Based on Certain Conditions

I have 5 buttons and 5 labels next to each button. When I launch the app, I expect the first button to be enabled and the rest to be disabled and highlighted with shortcuts. after I click on the first button it should disable the shortcut and enable the second button, etc. with all other buttons.

This path is long, is there a better way to do it?

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

        btn1.Enabled = true;
        btn2.Enabled = false;
        btn3.Enabled = false;
        btn4.Enabled = false;
        btn5.Enabled = false;
        lblStep1.Enabled = true;
        lblStep2.Enabled = false;
        lblStep3.Enabled = false;
        lblStep4.Enabled = false;
        lblStep5.Enabled = false;
    }

    private void btn1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
            btn1.Enabled = false;
            btn2.Enabled = true;
            btn3.Enabled = false;
            btn4.Enabled = false;
            btn5.Enabled = false;
            lblStep1.Enabled = false;
            lblStep2.Enabled = true;
            lblStep3.Enabled = false;
            lblStep4.Enabled = false;
            lblStep5.Enabled = false;
    }

    private void btn2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
            btn1.Enabled = false;
            btn2.Enabled = false;
            btn3.Enabled = true;
            btn4.Enabled = false;
            btn5.Enabled = false;
            lblStep1.Enabled = false;
            lblStep2.Enabled = false;
            lblStep3.Enabled = true;
            lblStep4.Enabled = false;
            lblStep5.Enabled = false;
        }
    }

    private void btn3_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        btn1.Enabled = false;
        btn2.Enabled = false;
        btn3.Enabled = false;
        btn4.Enabled = true;
        btn5.Enabled = false;
        lblStep1.Enabled = false;
        lblStep2.Enabled = false;
        lblStep3.Enabled = false;
        lblStep4.Enabled = true;
        lblStep5.Enabled = false;
    }

    private void btn4_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        btn1.Enabled = false;
        btn2.Enabled = false;
        btn3.Enabled = false;
        btn4.Enabled = false;
        btn5.Enabled = true;
        lblStep1.Enabled = false;
        lblStep2.Enabled = false;
        lblStep3.Enabled = false;
        lblStep4.Enabled = false;
        lblStep5.Enabled = true;
    }

    private void btn5_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        btn1.Enabled = true;
        btn2.Enabled = false;
        btn3.Enabled = false;
        btn4.Enabled = false;
        btn5.Enabled = false;
        lblStep1.Enabled = true;
        lblStep2.Enabled = false;
        lblStep3.Enabled = false;
        lblStep4.Enabled = false;
        lblStep5.Enabled = false;
    }
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Let all these buttons and labels be inside the container (unless that means you can use this. Also controls if the form only contains these buttons and labels). Let it be pnlContainer

, now you can try something like this:

public void ButtonController(Button buttonToEnable, Label labelToenable)
{
    foreach (Control ctrl in panel1.Controls)
    {
        if (ctrl == buttonToEnable || ctrl == labelToenable)
        {
            ctrl.Enabled = true;
        }
        else
        {
            ctrl.Enabled = false;
        }
    }
}

So, in Form1_Load

you want to include btn1

and lblStep1

therefore the call should be:



ButtonController(btn1,lblStep1);

For btn1_Click

a method call would be like ButtonController(btn2,lblStep2);

, in short, you can pass the button and label you want to include to this method, which will disable the rest of the controls in the container.

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