rsegal
12th March 2003 15:56 UTC

Grouping radio buttons not working
I want to have multiple groups of radio buttons on a custom page I'm creating however things are not working out for me.

Here is the definition of one of the fields from my ini file. It is the first in a group of radio buttons.

[Field 15]
Type=radiobutton
Text=Unknown
Left=190
Right=-1
Top=36
Bottom=43
State=1
Flag=GROUP

This is followed by a few other radio buttons which fall under the same group. This works great, however I have another group of radio buttons following the first group whichc starts off as,

[Field 23]
Type=radiobutton
Text=Unknown
Left=190
Right=-1
Top=97
Bottom=104
Flag=GROUP

All the controls do display but all the radio buttons are grouped together into one larger radio button group whereas I need a few separate smaller groups.

viper0179
12th March 2003 18:05 UTC

Never tried this before, but have you tried to change the flag variable to another setting for the seperate groups?

Joost Verburg
12th March 2003 18:58 UTC

Only the first one should get the GROUP flag. Have a look at the example in Contrib\InstallOptions.

rsegal
12th March 2003 20:30 UTC

The example in the installoptions is easy enough to understand however from what I can tell I have the exact same setup in my ini file only in my case I have a bunch of radio buttons only.

In my ini file I have [Field 15] as the beginning of one set of radio buttons and [Field 23] as the beginning of a new set of radio buttons. So I should have a "GROUP" flag for each of them right?

I did try giving them each a diffent group flag (Flag=GROUP1 and Flag=GROUP2) variable name but that didn't work. I assume NSIS is not setup to handle such things. The radio buttons are all still handled as one big group.

Joost Verburg
12th March 2003 20:39 UTC

GROUP only adds the window style, so there can be no NSIS limitation.

Can you post the whole INI file?

rsegal
12th March 2003 21:59 UTC

The files pretty long so I attached it. Hope you guys can help me solve this one.

Joost Verburg
12th March 2003 22:30 UTC

If you add GROUP flags, everything before the next GROUP flag will be a group. To group radio buttons, the group should only contain radio buttons. So you should add a GROUP flag to the first control after the radio button group too.

rsegal
12th March 2003 22:52 UTC

That was the problem. Everythings good now. Thanks Joost and viper for your help!

Sunjammer
13th March 2003 11:04 UTC

The Archive doesn't seem to contain any Install Options examples, maybe this should be added with some explanation and a screenshot.

rsegal
14th March 2003 17:36 UTC

I thought of an interesting addition to my original problem. Is there an easy way to tell which radio button is selected out of a group of radio buttons without having to query each radio button in the group?

Joost Verburg
14th March 2003 18:04 UTC

Nope, you have to check 'em all. A group is just a window flag, InstallOptions does nothing with it.

rsegal
14th March 2003 21:04 UTC

D'oh!