wx.RadioButton behavior in Windows

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I have a question about the behavior of wx.RadioButton group in Windows:

I have a group of five radio buttons on a form with widgets above and below the radiobutton group. The third of them is checked. If I am in a field below the radio buttons and tab backwards into the group, focus goes to the third, checked widget. If I am above the radio group and tab into the group, focus goes to the first radio button in the group and sets that button to checked. I want instead for the tab to go to the checked button, whichever it is. Can this be done?

Thanks

Hank

Hank Knox
Schulich School of Music
McGill University

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Hank Knox wrote:

I have a question about the behavior of wx.RadioButton group in Windows:

I have a group of five radio buttons on a form with widgets above and below the radiobutton group. The third of them is checked. If I am in a field below the radio buttons and tab backwards into the group, focus goes to the third, checked widget. If I am above the radio group and tab into the group, focus goes to the first radio button in the group and sets that button to checked. I want instead for the tab to go to the checked button, whichever it is. Can this be done?

I think that is the way it is supposed to work, and there was some changes done a while back to make sure that it does. Which version are you using?

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Thank you for the quick reply.
I am using version 2.6.1. According to the changelog this was fixed in 2.5.3.1.
Hank

Robin Dunn wrote:

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Hank Knox wrote:

I have a question about the behavior of wx.RadioButton group in Windows:

I have a group of five radio buttons on a form with widgets above and below the radiobutton group. The third of them is checked. If I am in a field below the radio buttons and tab backwards into the group, focus goes to the third, checked widget. If I am above the radio group and tab into the group, focus goes to the first radio button in the group and sets that button to checked. I want instead for the tab to go to the checked button, whichever it is. Can this be done?

I think that is the way it is supposed to work, and there was some changes done a while back to make sure that it does. Which version are you using?

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Hank Knox wrote:

Thank you for the quick reply.
I am using version 2.6.1. According to the changelog this was fixed in 2.5.3.1.

I think there were also some more recent changes. Please try 2.6.3.2, it does work there for me.

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Software Craftsman
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Same problem in 2.6.3.2. Maybe I'm doing something wrong when I initialise the radiobuttons?

Robin Dunn wrote:

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Hank Knox wrote:

Thank you for the quick reply.
I am using version 2.6.1. According to the changelog this was fixed in 2.5.3.1.

I think there were also some more recent changes. Please try 2.6.3.2, it does work there for me.

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My code is doing something weird. It works fine when I put a radio group

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on a panel with some other widgets in a very simple layout. I'll explore further Hank Robin Dunn wrote:

Hank Knox wrote:

Thank you for the quick reply.
I am using version 2.6.1. According to the changelog this was fixed in 2.5.3.1.

I think there were also some more recent changes. Please try 2.6.3.2, it does work there for me.

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Here is how to trigger the problem:

If the radiobutton group is preceded by a wx.lib.masked.TextCtrl(), the group displays the behavior I described in my original message. I have attached a sample code snippet:

Hank

Robin Dunn wrote:

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Hank Knox wrote:

Thank you for the quick reply.
I am using version 2.6.1. According to the changelog this was fixed in 2.5.3.1.

I think there were also some more recent changes. Please try 2.6.3.2, it does work there for me.

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Hank Knox wrote:

Here is how to trigger the problem:

If the radiobutton group is preceded by a wx.lib.masked.TextCtrl(), the group displays the behavior I described in my original message. I have attached a sample code snippet:

The masked controls handle navigation themselves (so they can do inter-control navigation if a control has multiple fields within it.) So the code in wx for tabbing into a radio group is not being used in that case. If you want to figure out how to make the masked controls behave better when next to a radio group I'm sure that Will would welcome a patch.

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Robin Dunn
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hello, I was wondering if anyone had a sample of a gizmos treeslistctrl that I could take a look at to learn about these things. I’m having some trouble with the image lists and whatnot. thanks.

Jeff

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Robin Dunn robin@alldunn.com wrote:

Hank Knox wrote:

Here is how to trigger the problem:

If the radiobutton group is preceded by a wx.lib.masked.TextCtrl(), the
group displays the behavior I described in my original message. I have
attached a sample code snippet:

The masked controls handle navigation themselves (so they can do
inter-control navigation if a control has multiple fields within it.) So
the code in wx for tabbing into a radio group is not being used in that
case. If you want to figure out how to make the masked controls behave
better when next to
a radio group I’m sure that Will would welcome a patch.

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Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman
http://wxPython.org Java give you jitters? Relax with wxPython!

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