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In article <Bz7woH.M49@news.cso.uiuc.edu> duff@cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>I began making my first .RES file using the Toolkit last night, and I
>finished the "pretty" part of making it, but I'm having trouble understanding
>how to make one set of Radio buttons allow the user to ONLY choose ONE
>of five buttons.  What I mean to say is, I have five buttons, GROUPED,
>and I want the user to be able to choose one of them and have ONLY that one
>highlighted.  Do I have to do that from my calling program, or
>can I set that up in the .RES ?
	  1. give each one an ID (ID_RB1,ID_RB2,...ID_RB5)
	  2. in the DlgProc for the dialog box, handle the messages
	     as follows:
		case WM_COMMAND:
		  id=(int)wparam;
		  switch(id){
		    ID_RB1:
		    ID_RB2:
		    ID_RB3:
		    ID_RB4:
		    ID_RB5: CheckRadioButton(hdlg,ID_RB1,ID_RB5,id);
			    break;
>
>Also, I have another set of radio buttons that I want to be able to
>have the user choose any or ALL of them, depending on preferences.
>The same question applies to this: can I do this in .res or in my .cpp?

	You should not use radio buttons for this type of selection.
	Use checkboxes instead.  If you use BS_AUTOCHECKBOX, then
	the control will check & uncheck itself.  You only have to
	'read' the settings when you press OK to terminate the
	dialog box.  Here you will want to use IsDlgButtonChecked().

BTW, most of this stuff is in Petzold's "Programming Windows 3.1"
which is essential.  If you don't have it, get it.
-- 
John A. Grant						jagrant@emr1.emr.ca
Airborne Geophysics
Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa

In article <1992Dec14.010010.17900@emr1.emr.ca> jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) writes:
   In article <Bz7woH.M49@news.cso.uiuc.edu> duff@cs.uiuc.edu writes:
   >I began making my first .RES file using the Toolkit last night, and I
   >finished the "pretty" part of making it, but I'm having trouble understanding
   >how to make one set of Radio buttons allow the user to ONLY choose ONE
   >of five buttons.  What I mean to say is, I have five buttons, GROUPED,
   >and I want the user to be able to choose one of them and have ONLY that one
   >highlighted.  Do I have to do that from my calling program, or
   >can I set that up in the .RES ?
	     1. give each one an ID (ID_RB1,ID_RB2,...ID_RB5)
	     2. in the DlgProc for the dialog box, handle the messages
		as follows:
		   case WM_COMMAND:
		     id=(int)wparam;
		     switch(id){
		       ID_RB1:
		       ID_RB2:
		       ID_RB3:
		       ID_RB4:
		       ID_RB5: CheckRadioButton(hdlg,ID_RB1,ID_RB5,id);
			       break;

You could just as well set it up in your res file.
Using the Resource Workshop editor:
  Double click the first radio button of the group
  Set button type to "Auto radio button"
  Make sure "Tab stop" atttribute is set
  for the rest of your buttons:
    Double click button 2..lastbutton
    Set button type to "Auto radio button"
    Remove any "Tab stop" attribute of the button
And that's it!

(Rest deleted...)

Good luck!

Torstein





--
Torstein Hansen
torstein@itekiris.kjemi.unit.no

In article <Bz7woH.M49@news.cso.uiuc.edu> duff@cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>I began making my first .RES file using the Toolkit last night, and I
>finished the "pretty" part of making it, but I'm having trouble understanding
>how to make one set of Radio buttons allow the user to ONLY choose ONE
>of five buttons.  What I mean to say is, I have five buttons, GROUPED,
>and I want the user to be able to choose one of them and have ONLY that one
>highlighted.  Do I have to do that from my calling program, or
>can I set that up in the .RES ?
>
>Also, I have another set of radio buttons that I want to be able to
>have the user choose any or ALL of them, depending on preferences.
>The same question applies to this: can I do this in .res or in my .cpp?
>
>Thanks for the help, and don't splat me because I don't know what I'm doing.
>
I could never get it to work right either.  What I do is to edit the 
resource as text and put all the radio buttons on consecutive lines and
then put some other resource after that (like a CTEXT).  The effectively
groups your radio buttons (make sure they are all set to be auto-radio
buttons as well).  If you have more than one group of them, just make sure
you have a non-radio button resource inbetween the groups.

This is probably not the most elegant way of doing it, but it works...

-Rick
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