enabled=false

[jlangholzj]

i am creating a millionare program using 1.0 framework and in order to rep. which dollar ammount i am on, i used a group box with radio buttons on it , but have it disabled so as the user cannont check the rad's, however i have a diff color for the milestone ammounts and with it disabled it will not show the diff colors. how can i get around this?

[Shaggy Hiker]

Would it suffice to disable only the radio buttons rather than the groupbox?

[jmcilhinney]

You can make your RadioButtons essentially read-only without disabling anything with code like this:

Private currentCheckedRadio As RadioButton 'The RadioButton that is currently checked.
    Private allowCheckedChange As Boolean = True 'Whether the RadioButtons can change their Checked state.
 
    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        Me.RadioButton1.Checked = True
        Me.currentCheckedRadio = Me.RadioButton1
        Me.allowCheckedChange = False
    End Sub
 
    Private Sub RadioButton_CheckedChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles RadioButton1.CheckedChanged, _
                                                                                                               RadioButton2.CheckedChanged, _
                                                                                                               RadioButton3.CheckedChanged
        If Me.allowCheckedChange Then
            'Allow the new RadioButton to be checked.
            Me.currentCheckedRadio = DirectCast(sender, RadioButton)
        ElseIf Not sender Is Me.currentCheckedRadio Then
            'Recheck the appropriate RadioButton.
            Me.currentCheckedRadio.Checked = True
        End If
    End Sub

Then whenever you want to check a different one yourself you just use code like this:

Me.allowCheckedChange = True
        Me.RadioButton2.Checked = True
        Me.allowCheckedChange = False

[jlangholzj]

Thank you VERY MUCH!!!!! i can't stree how muck i thank you

[jmcilhinney]

Cool. Don't forget to resolve your thread from the Thread Tools menu.