Help with If statement and textboxes

[Kaine tyrie]

I'm trying to set up a corn snake morph calculator and I have been stopped at the first hurdle! When trying to read if the text1 is "Caramel" and then to output the result "Amber" it doesn't work but when I change it from == to != it works.

Originally I tried Comboboxes to no avail. Then I tried using different methods again to no avail.

`private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (Morph_1.Text==Caramel)
            {
                Morph_Output.Items.Add("amber");
            }



        }`

When the user puts "Caramel" into the text box it should output "Amber" After I have this part fixed I want to have it so you can input two morphs and get the result E.g "Caramel + Hypomelanistic = Amber"

Any help and advice are greatly appreciated, this is my first question on here and not really sure if this is laid out correctly or not.

[The1Dickens]

Doesn't '==' set the variable? I think you might want to use just '=' for the check.

 

@Kaine tyrie

Edited October 16, 2019 by The1Dickens
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[Kaine tyrie]

4 minutes ago, The1Dickens said:

Doesn't '==' set the variable? I think you might want to use just '=' for the check.

 

@Kaine tyrie

I'm not entirely sure why but = doesn't work either only !=

@The1Dickens

[The1Dickens]

 

12 minutes ago, Kaine tyrie said:

I'm not entirely sure why but = doesn't work either only !=

@The1Dickens

Well, != means 'not equal'. So, there must be something somewhere else in the code that is failing to set the Text variable to Caramel. It is being read as 'if Text does not equal Caramel, perform the next step'.

[Kaine tyrie]

well prior to that code i have:

string Caramel;

 

@The1Dickens

[The1Dickens]

40 minutes ago, Kaine tyrie said:

well prior to that code i have:

string Caramel;

 

@The1Dickens

Welp, I think this is beyond me, then. Sorry.

[elpiop]

im guessing you want 

 

if (Morph_1.Text=="Caramel") 

 

or whatever string comparison method your language is supposed to use

[Kaine tyrie]

1 minute ago, elpiop said:

im guessing you want 

 

if (Morph_1.Text=="Caramel") 

 

or whatever string comparison method your language is supposed to use

yep pretty much yet that doesn't work 

[Sauron]

Can't help you with so little code, we can't even see what "Morph_1" is and where it comes from, where the user inputs the text, what the output is...

 

Also please use code blocks.

[Franck]

8 hours ago, Kaine tyrie said:

yep pretty much yet that doesn't work 

Let me guess, you are typing : caramel and NOT Caramel

[Kaine tyrie]

5 hours ago, Sauron said:

Can't help you with so little code, we can't even see what "Morph_1" is and where it comes from, where the user inputs the text, what the output is...

 

Also please use code blocks.

 

the input is a text box, they then press the button and the output is put into the listbox to the right

[Kaine tyrie]

I had to  convert Caramel to string first so now its this:

 

Caramel = Convert.ToString(Morph_1.Text);
            if (Morph_1.Text == Caramel)
            {
                Morph_Output.Items.Add("amber");
            }

[Sauron]

43 minutes ago, Kaine tyrie said:

I had to  convert Caramel to string first so now its this:

 

Caramel = Convert.ToString(Morph_1.Text);
            if (Morph_1.Text == Caramel)
            {
                Morph_Output.Items.Add("amber");
            }

That looks like it would always be true even when the input is different