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basic radiobutton question

 
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Dear Swing Gurus,

I am trying to work through some beginner tutorials and noticed that my radiobutton would allow you to check all of the options. Do the buttons need to be placed in some type of special container? My code is below:



Thanks. I appreciate your time and help very much,
Adam
 
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Adam Confino wrote:I am trying to work through some beginner tutorials and noticed that my radiobutton would allow you to check all of the options. Do the buttons need to be placed in some type of special container?



You need to use a ButtonGroup. It's not a container in the GUI sense, but it's a non-graphical object that deselects the other buttons in the group when a button is selected.

If you're looking at beginner tutorials, they should mention ButtonGroup along with JRadioButton. Sun's tutorial does.


Then again, a beginner tutorial should not be having you do setLayout(null) and setBounds(...) either. It's brittle and in the long run no easier than doing it the right way.
 
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Thanks a bunch! I appreciate your help!
 
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