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How can I build a 3-state button?

First State: BLANK (Never Clicked)
Second State: X
Third State: O

Then cycle between X and O on subsequent clicks?

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Here's what I did to give the perception of more than 1 state button.

For your scenario, we can do 3 states by utilizing visible field

Set button 1 Visible field to variableX=0, button 2 to variableX=1, and variableX=2.

Button 1 OnSelect field with UpdateContext({variableX:1})
Button 2 OnSelect field with UpdateContext({variableX:2})
Button 3 OnSelect field with UpdateContext({variableX:1})

Hope this helps

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If you want to do it with one button, try:

Button1.OnSelect:
UpdateContext({ Button1State: Mod(Button1State, 2) + 1 })
Button1.Text:
If(Button1State < 1, "", Button1State = 1, "X", "O")

Are you building a tic-tac-toe game?

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SqueezeOJ 30 on at

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Hi Paul,

Thanks for your response. It worked perfectly!

Yes, I'm trying to build a Tic-Tac-Toe game. I'm very new to PowerApps and so I'm working through some CS101-type projects to see how it works.

Your 3-state button works great. However, I'm still trying to figure out a few more things, so I'll post them to another thread.

Be well, Jason

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SqueezeOJ 30 on at

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Hi DXiong,

Thanks for your solution. It's an interesting adaptation that I might try if I can't get the logic for a true 3-state button to work.

Be well, Jason

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SqueezeOJ 30 on at

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ResetButton.onSelect:
UpdateContext({button1state:0})

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