Radio Button Problem

KimiSue · Aug 24, 1999

Myy roomate and I have a problem that in driving us INASANE! We have a search screen that comes up, has a text entry box for the search criteria, and 2 radio buttons - by name or by i.d. We have tried all we can find in books or think of to get the code written to distinguish between the 2 radio buttons. Does anyone have any ideas, please? Thanks!

zBuilder · Sep 4, 1999

Well.... It depends on what compiler you are using, and how your radio buttons are created. 
If you are using a Resource compiler, you would assign an ID to each radio button and simply check for that ID against the "wParam" variable of the "WM_COMMAND" message for the window that owns the radio buttons. 
Kind of like this: 
In your RESOURCE file (This is a paste from some of my working code of a dialog box with radio button controls. Borland C++ 3.1): 
 
MyPortSetup DIALOG 25, 16, 174, 179 
STYLE DS_MODALFRAME ¦ WS_POPUP ¦ WS_CAPTION ¦ WS_SYSMENU 
CAPTION "Communications Setup" 
BEGIN 
CONTROL "4800", BAUD_4800, "BUTTON", BS_AUTORADIOBUTTON ¦ WS_CHILD ¦ WS_VISIBLE ¦ WS_GROUP ¦ WS_TABSTOP, 85, 106, 32, 12 
CONTROL "9600", BAUD_9600, "BUTTON", BS_AUTORADIOBUTTON ¦ WS_CHILD ¦ WS_VISIBLE ¦ WS_TABSTOP, 85, 122, 32, 12 
CONTROL "19200", BAUD_19200, "BUTTON", BS_AUTORADIOBUTTON ¦ WS_CHILD ¦ WS_VISIBLE ¦ WS_TABSTOP, 85, 138, 32, 12 
CONTROL "38400", BAUD_38400, "BUTTON", BS_AUTORADIOBUTTON ¦ WS_CHILD ¦ WS_VISIBLE ¦ WS_TABSTOP, 85, 153, 32, 12 
CONTROL "COM 1", SEL_COM1, "BUTTON", BS_AUTORADIOBUTTON ¦ WS_CHILD ¦ WS_VISIBLE ¦ WS_GROUP ¦ WS_TABSTOP, 23, 106, 32, 12 
CONTROL "COM 2", SEL_COM2, "BUTTON", BS_AUTORADIOBUTTON ¦ WS_CHILD ¦ WS_VISIBLE ¦ WS_TABSTOP, 23, 122, 32, 12 
CONTROL "COM 3", SEL_COM3, "BUTTON", BS_AUTORADIOBUTTON ¦ WS_CHILD ¦ WS_VISIBLE ¦ WS_TABSTOP, 23, 138, 32, 12 
CONTROL "COM 4", SEL_COM4, "BUTTON", BS_AUTORADIOBUTTON ¦ WS_CHILD ¦ WS_VISIBLE ¦ WS_TABSTOP, 23, 153, 32, 12 
//stuff deleted! 
END 
 
//And in the header file...: 
 
#define SEL_COM1 401 //or what ever #'s the resource compiler puts here... 
#define SEL_COM2 402 
#define SEL_COM3 403 
#define SEL_COM4 404 
#define BAUD_4800 405 
#define BAUD_9600 406 
#define BAUD_19200 407 
#define BAUD_38400 408 
 
//And in your source code for the above dialog box: 
 
BOOL FAR PASCAL _export ComSetupBox( HWND hDlg, UINT message, 
UINT wParam, LONG lParam ) 
{ 
//stuff deleted! 
switch( message ) 
{ 
//stuff deleted! 
 
case WM_COMMAND: 
switch( wParam ) 
{ 
//stuff deleted! 
 
case SEL_COM1: 
MuttIniData[3] = '1'; //here we do stuff for one radio button... 
break; 
 
case SEL_COM2: 
MuttIniData[3] = '2'; //here we do stuff for another radio button... 
break; 
 
case SEL_COM3: 
MuttIniData[3] = '3'; // and another... 
break; 
 
case SEL_COM4: 
MuttIniData[3] = '4'; // and another... 
break; 
 
case BAUD_4800: 
memcpy( &MuttIniData[4], ":4800,n,8,1\r", 12 ); // and another... 
break; 
 
case BAUD_9600: 
memcpy( &MuttIniData[4], ":9600,n,8,1\r", 12 ); // and so on... 
break; 
 
case BAUD_19200: 
memcpy( &MuttIniData[4], ":19200,n,8,1", 12 ); 
break; 
 
case BAUD_38400: 
memcpy( &MuttIniData[4], ":38400,n,8,1", 12 ); 
break; 
 
 
} 
break; 
 
case WM_CLOSE: 
EndDialog( hDlg, TRUE ); 
return TRUE; 
 
} 
return FALSE; 
} 
 
I hope this helps.

KimiSue · Sep 7, 1999

Thank you so much - it was just one little detail piece that I couldn't seem to find. I REALLY appreciate your help!

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