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Re: Win32LIb: setCheck anomaly?

• Posted by Dan Moyer <danielmoyer at prodigy.net> Mar 01, 2007
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Derek Parnell wrote:
> 
> 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

Derek,

You may have completely & correctly understood me, but just to be sure:
the radios DO work correctly when a USER *CLICKS* on them; 
it's only when *SETCHECK* is encountered in a program that 
the radios don't clear properly.

Dan