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Re: Help needed dealing with switch control [message #20018 is a reply to message #20017]

Tue, 10 February 2009 10:42

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I'm not sure I understand your problem, but it could be caused by the way U++ handles Switches.

The traditional way of doing things is that if you want 3 switches, you will place 3 widgets on you form, each corresponding to a single option. Of course, you need to deactivate options when users interacts with on of the switches that constitute a logical group, and since witting such code would be repetitive for this very common scenario, you would place all tree switches in a GroupControl which will handle selecting items and logical grouping for you.

In U++ on the other hand, If you need to have 3 options, you will only add one single Switch to your layout. Then you will call Add 3 times on that Switch. In U++ Switch is actually more like a GroupControl, an calling Add populates it with "traditional switch" widgets. Switch is a group control, and is not like Option, which constitutes a single check box, not a group.

This works well for single groups, but if you need multiple groups that act as a single logical group, you will have to use something like mrjt suggested.

Switch should be able to handle both horizontal and vertical layout (as seen in your screenshot).

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