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visual basic radio buttons

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  • 09-06-2006 12:38pm
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    Sam Vimes
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    i'm trying to use radio buttons in visual basic and they're a bit odd. i need a few separate groups of them, sort of like a multiple choice quiz.

    the problem is that it'll only let one radio button be selected at a time, i.e. i click the answer for question 2 and question 1's answer is unselected.

    i've tried making them spearate arrays but that didn't seem to do anything. any ideas?


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    aidan_walsh
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    You need to put them inside group boxes, from what I can remember.


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    Tobias Greeshman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,082 ✭✭✭Tobias Greeshman


    I think you might have to put them into a group box (the group box has to be placed first). Could be wrong now, I haven't used VB in years, but I'm pretty sure.


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    Sam Vimes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    ye a few places on the net mentioned groupboxes but i don't seem to have an option for a groupbox. do i have to add it as a component or something?


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    Tobias Greeshman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,082 ✭✭✭Tobias Greeshman


    Yeah it's on the toolbox there, it might be called a frame or frame box on there.


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    Sam Vimes
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    now this is just weird. i found a place that said the old version of a groupbox is a frame so i added a frame and tried it out and it worked. but i tried that 20 feckin minutes ago and it didn't!!!!!!11111!!!!1111!!!!111111one

    thanks for the help


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    dowlinj
    Registered Users Posts: 128 ✭✭dowlinj


    There's a GroupName property that you need to set for the radio button controls you wanna group. The groupname property has to be the same for each radio button in the grouping. This link explains...
    http://www.startvbdotnet.com/aspsite/controls/radio.aspx


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    Evil Phil
    Registered Users Posts: 7,468 ✭✭✭Evil Phil


    Commander Vimes wrote:
    now this is just weird. i found a place that said the old version of a groupbox is a frame so i added a frame and tried it out and it worked. but i tried that 20 feckin minutes ago and it didn't!!!!!!11111!!!!1111!!!!111111one

    thanks for the help


    Is there a parent property of some sort on radio buttons? So if the frame is the parent as apposed to the form then you can seperate out groups of radio buttons.


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    bonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭bonkey


    Commander Vimes wrote:
    but i tried that 20 feckin minutes ago and it didn't

    At a guess, you ended up moving the radio button over the frame, rather than pasting it into the frame.


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