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Radio Button Group Problem

Terry Bottorff — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 17:42:16 GMT

I am using a radio button group and I set it to have 5 radio button count. I set the BO to none since I am supplying the text for the radio buttons. I run it load the form and it looks good. I run it the second time and go back to edit it and all of a sudden I have 7, 9, 13 buttons filled in automatically and showing up on top of each other as the picture shows? I have even uninstalled, downloaded latest version are reinstalled and I get the same thing.

What could it possibly be?

TIA.

RE: Radio Button Group Problem

Edhy Rijo — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 17:42:16 GMT

[quote][b]Terry Bottorff (11/20/2010)[/b][hr]I just wanted to pick your brain as to why you did what you did.[/quote]

Hey Terry, get in line, you are not the only one :w00t:

RE: Radio Button Group Problem

Ivan George Borges — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:47:19 GMT

Glad it worked.

You are welcome, Terry! :cool:

RE: Radio Button Group Problem

Terry Bottorff — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 10:01:42 GMT

Yes that worked for me also. I just wanted to pick your brain as to why you did what you did. Thank you so much. Let me know if you find out why.

RE: Radio Button Group Problem

Ivan George Borges — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:36:10 GMT

I tried that because I noticed that it happened only once I run the solution. I wondered how the compiler would do that without the form opened, since it would have to find it into the project and do it on purpose. :D So I closed the form and as I guessed nothing happened.

Now, the reason for that is something I will need some more time to investigate and I wasn't able to do it yet.

I hope it has worked for you too. Let us know.

RE: Radio Button Group Problem

Terry Bottorff — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:49:22 GMT

Wow. I'll try that. Can you tell me why you tried it by saving and closing and then running?

RE: Radio Button Group Problem

Ivan George Borges — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:33:37 GMT

Yep, I was able to reproduce the issue over here. And I was able to create a work around too. I noticed that this only happens if you run your application with the form open in the designer. On the other hand, if you drop your button on you form, save it, close it, and then run it, it won't happen.

Now we can move on and avoid it. I will see if I can investigate a bit further and find the reason.

Thanks for the sample, Terry.

RE: Radio Button Group Problem

Terry Bottorff — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:24:11 GMT

This is my try at the zip with an older zip program. The last 2 I tried was the newest version of winzip.

There may be a conflict between Winzip V15 or the newest and this system because with the older version of winzip it seems to work?

RE: Radio Button Group Problem

Ivan George Borges — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:13:11 GMT

Yep, you should be able to send zipped files with no problem.

RE: Radio Button Group Problem

Terry Bottorff — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:55:15 GMT

Try sending zip from different machine.

Same error on another machine????

Can not send zip?

RE: Radio Button Group Problem

Terry Bottorff — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:37:39 GMT

That is all I can see also and then the attachment form will not work any longer.

I'll try sending the zip on a different machine.

RE: Radio Button Group Problem

Ivan George Borges — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:48:29 GMT

Terry, not sure what might be happening. The only thing I see from your picture is runtime error in '/'. The following is what you have uploaded:

RE: Radio Button Group Problem

Terry Bottorff — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:32:03 GMT

When I first ran this project I only had the radio button group on it and 2 options. No button. Quit and edited and still 2 options. Put myexitbutton on the form and reran the project. Now if you move the options around you will find there are 4 options??????

Now when I try to attach my zip file I get the error found in the picture? The zip is 78000 bytes so not big.

RE: Radio Button Group Problem

Terry Bottorff — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:03:42 GMT

Alright I'll do it in the morning.

RE: Radio Button Group Problem

Greg McGuffey — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:24:17 GMT

You don't need to include the bin or obj folders, they get created when you build the solution.

RE: Radio Button Group Problem

Terry Bottorff — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:22:39 GMT

Yes, do I zip the entire subdirectory?

RE: Radio Button Group Problem

Ivan George Borges — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:06:15 GMT

Good, one thing solved.

Regarding the RadioButtonGroup, I still can't tell you what could be going on. Were you able to write a small sample with a form, a RadioButtonGroup and maybe your Exit button so I could reproduce it here?

RE: Radio Button Group Problem

Terry Bottorff — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:05:58 GMT

That took care of the import problem but what is happening with the RadioButtonGroup and the Button Classes?

RE: Radio Button Group Problem

Ivan George Borges — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:49:35 GMT

Have you added the MicroFour StrataFrame UI reference into your project?

RE: Radio Button Group Problem

Terry Bottorff — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:30:14 GMT

Yes even on a simple form both classes create the same problem.

Yes the import has a squiggly line underneath it.

RE: Radio Button Group Problem

Ivan George Borges — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:04:20 GMT

Could you reproduce this same thing on a simple sample?

About the Imports line, if this was what you were asking last, I can't see anything wrong with it.

RE: Radio Button Group Problem

Terry Bottorff — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:09:03 GMT

Wow. Greg helped me develop one also(exit button) that required a form name as an input and now it is doing the same thing.

Imports System.Drawing
Imports System.ComponentModel
'Imports MicroFour.StrataFrame.Business
Imports MicroFour.StrataFrame.UI.Collections
Imports System.Windows.Forms.Button
 
''' <summary>
''' My Button class.  I will use this class to exit a form.
''' </summary>
''' <remarks></remarks>
<ToolboxBitmap(GetType(System.Windows.Forms.Button))>
Public Class myExitButton2
    Inherits MicroFour.StrataFrame.UI.Windows.Forms.Button
 
    Private _parentForm As System.Windows.Forms.Form
 
    Public Property ParentForm() As System.Windows.Forms.Form
        Get
            Return _parentForm
        End Get
        Set(ByVal value As System.Windows.Forms.Form)
            _parentForm = value
        End Set
    End Property
 
    Protected Overrides Sub OnCreateControl()
        MyBase.OnCreateControl()
        Me.Text = "Close"
        Me.Width = 75
        Me.Height = 23
    End Sub
 
    Protected Overrides Sub OnClick(ByVal e As EventArgs)
        MyBase.OnClick(e)
 
        '-- Close the form if its set.
        If Me.ParentForm IsNot Nothing Then
            Me.ParentForm.Close()
        End If
    End Sub

Imports MicroFour.StrataFrame.UI.Collections

The above line is also not correct now?

RE: Radio Button Group Problem

Terry Bottorff — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:00:11 GMT

Well I found out what it is I think.

I created a subclass of a button for exiting a form.

Imports System.Drawing
Imports System.ComponentModel
'Imports MicroFour.StrataFrame.Business
Imports MicroFour.StrataFrame.UI.Collections
 
 
''' <summary>
''' My Button class.  I will use this class to exit a form.
''' </summary>
''' <remarks></remarks>
<ToolboxBitmap(GetType(System.Windows.Forms.Button))>
Public Class myExitButton
    Inherits MicroFour.StrataFrame.UI.Windows.Forms.Button
 
    Public Sub New()
        MyBase.New()
        'Me.Width = 23
        'Me.Height = 32
        'Me.Text = "Exit"
    End Sub
 
    Protected Overrides Sub OnClick(ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
        MyBase.OnClick(e)
        ' Simply Want to Close the Form The Following Works but the following is more generic
        ' Parent.Dispose()
 
        Dim parentform As Form = Me.GetParentForm()
        If parentform IsNot Nothing Then
            parentform.Close()
        End If
 
 
    End Sub
 
    Protected Overrides Sub oncreatecontrol()
        MyBase.OnCreateControl()
        Me.Width = 75
        Me.Height = 23
        Me.Text = "Exit"
    End Sub
 
    Private Function GetParentForm() As Object
        ' return var
        Dim parentform As Form = Nothing
        Dim ctl1 As Control = Me.Parent
 
        If TypeOf ctl1 Is Form Then
            parentform = DirectCast(ctl1, Form)
            Return parentform
        End If
 
        Do
            ctl1 = Me.GetNextControl(ctl1, True)
 
            If ctl1 IsNot Nothing Then
                ' Search for Form
                If TypeOf ctl1 Is Form Then
                    parentform = DirectCast(ctl1, Form)
                End If
 
            End If
 
        Loop Until ctl1 Is Nothing
 
        Return parentform
 
    End Function
 
 
    ' The Following would probably work if you wanted to put the Parent Form in a Property
    '    Public Class closebutton
    'imports System.Windows.Forms.Button
 
    '        Private _parentForm As System.Windows.Forms.Form
 
    '        '' <summary>
    '        ''' Defines.
    '        ''' </summary>
    '        Public Property ParentForm() As System.Windows.Forms.Form
    '            Get
    '                Return _parentForm
    '            End Get
    '            Set(ByVal value As System.Windows.Forms.Form)
    '                _parentForm = value
    '            End Set
    '        End Property
 
    '        Protected Overrides Sub OnCreateControl()
    '            MyBase.OnCreateControl()
 
    '            Me.Text = "Close"
    '            Me.Width = 75
    '            Me.Height = 23
    '        End Sub
 
    '        Protected Overrides Sub OnClick(ByVal e As EventArgs)
    '            MyBase.OnClick(e)
 
    '            '-- Close the form if its set.
    '            If Me.ParentForm IsNot Nothing Then
    '                Me.ParentForm.Close()
    '            End If
    '        End Sub
 
    '    End Class
 
 
 
 
 
End Class

As Soon as I put it on the form to exit the weird stuff happens. I have used this on 9 or 10 forms before and nothing happened with Radiobuttongroups. Why all of a sudden???

RE: Radio Button Group Problem

Ivan George Borges — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:11:44 GMT

Got it. As soon as you get it happening on your simple project, post it here so we can test it together.

RE: Radio Button Group Problem

Terry Bottorff — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:09:04 GMT

I just tried it on a simple form in my project and the attached pictures show the weirdness. This is after I ran my form twice and went back to edit it?

This happened after no intervention by me other than running the form.

I am going to try on a separate project.