How to disable the button during the Pressed method?

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I'm using the IASToolkit to create an interactive UI for a low-code app. I want to disable the button on pressed to avoid people pushing it multiple times and to indicate that the action linked to the button is running. I was looking into triggering the Update method after setting the IsEnabled property, but that is only allowed in manual mode. I didn't find a lot of information on how the manual mode should be used. When running the script from the Automation application, everything seems to be disabled by default.

What is the easiest/best way to achieve this?

Michiel Saelen [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] Selected answer as best 4th July 2023

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Hi Michiel,

I've pushed an example to github: DisabledWhenPressed

The solution is to call Show(false); in your dialog class whenever you want the visuals to get updated, but haven't finished processing your event.

Note, by default, Show(); will use true as input, which means a response is required and prevents further Show calls from working.

With thanks to Thomas Cauwelier for explaining why the Show() wasn't working for me initially.

Michiel Saelen [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] Selected answer as best 4th July 2023
Michiel Saelen [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] commented

Thanks Floris,
The example really helps to quickly understand it!
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Hi Michiel

Would it be an option to do something like this?

private void OnPressed(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Button.IsEnabled = false;

// Method body

Button.IsEnabled = true;
}

Setting the IsEnabled property to false causes the widget to be grayed out and disables user interaction.

Floris Cockaerts [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] Posted new comment 4th July 2023
Michiel Saelen [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] commented

I tried this, but it does not seem to work (at least from the low-code app). The behavior is different when triggering the IAS from the automation module. I just tested disabling the button and it looks like it completely doesn’t work from low-code apps. So begins to look more like a bug.
Floris Cockaerts [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] commented

I think the enabled/disabled doesn’t update the display, and it will probably resolve after exiting the current function. There’s similar behaviour in WinForms. Will try to check my theory against a script locally and see if I can find a solution.