Question

I have a NumericUpDown in my application but it is dangerous. When the value is changed the entire document is erased. Because of this, I’d like to give the user a warning (even if he accidentally hits OK he can undo it.)

The problem is that it seems that the only event I could handle would be the ValueChanged event and I’d end up with code like this.

private bool ignoreValueChanged = false;

private void numFoobar_ValueChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (ignoreValueChanged)
    {
        ignoreValueChanged = false;
        return;
    }

    if (MessageBox.Show("This will erase the entire document. Are you sure?", "Confirmation", MessageBoxButtons.OKCancel) == DialogResult.Cancel)
    {
        ignoreValueChanged = true;
        numFoobar.Value = oldValue; // The ValueChanged event gets called again =/
        return;
    }

    // More code
}

There has got to be a better way. I was hoping Validating would help but it is only called when closing the form it seems.

Answer 1

Been googling a bit. First, I came up with this:

typeof(NumericUpDown).GetField("currentValue", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance).SetValue(numericUpDown1, 5m);

Which works but it is reflection and it seems a little over the top so I decided against it. Then I found this:

C# winforms numericupdown control

And based my solution on the second answer, which isn’t so bad to be honest.