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Re: Win32LIb: setCheck anomaly?

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Feb 28, 2007
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CChris wrote:
> 
> Dan Moyer wrote:
> > 
> > Using Win32Lib 0.60.6, when I use setCheck on one radio control in a group
> > of
> > radios,
> > it does NOT clear any other radio that might be checked. 
> > 
> > So if a radio in the group is checked, and the program sets another one
> > with setCheck, I end up with TWO radios in the same group checked.
> > 
> > It does set the specified radio, and user manually clicking on any radio
> > will reset any other that's checked.  And of course I can & now did 
> > programmatically reset all radios before setChecking any, but it was an
> > unexpected behaviour.
> > 
> > Dan Moyer
> 
> Well setCheck() just sets the checked state, so the behaviour is not 
> unexpected, just annoying.
> What could be missing in the lib is a defineButtonRadioGroup() akin to 
> defineMenuRadioGroup(). And setCheck() would have to care for them as it 
> currently does for menu radio groups.

This is a bug. All radio buttons in the same group are supposed to be mutually
exclusive, meaning that only one can be checked at any time. When the user clicks
on one the others are meant to get automatically unchecked.

Another thing to fix 

-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
Skype name: derek.j.parnell