Too many radio buttons in the form

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Hi all ,

i am making a program in vb.net where i have a big number of radio buttons since the system is a customer satisfaction system where i must enter the answers of the customer.So should i make if statements on every radio button to see if it is checked or is there any other way since if i wrote if statements for every radio button then this will take a lot of time ?

Thanks in advance.

Posted 18-May-11 5:02am

mhamad zarif

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Dave Kreskowiak · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-18T05:29:00

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Well, you don't have to write IF statements for every radio button. You could just group related radios together, handle the Click or CheckChanged events and handle the changes accordingly. A single event handler can handle multiple readio buttons. You can modify your backing values when the user makes the changes instead of when the user clicks OK to submit them all.

Posted 18-May-11 5:29am

Dave Kreskowiak

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-May-11 14:24pm

Dave, you're right, my 5, but it also looks like a UI design problem.
Please see my answer.
--SA

Dave Kreskowiak 18-May-11 15:37pm

Yeah, it is. I didn't feel much like preaching today. In either case, the handling of the radio buttons really doesn't change, not matter how many are on the form.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-May-11 18:04pm

Surely.
--SA

Ed Nutting 18-May-11 15:01pm

Good answer, my 5 :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-18T08:24:00

Dave is right.

Additionally, too many radio buttons is indicative of a bad UI design. You could use drop-down ComboBox instead of a set of radio buttons, or subdivide you form in smaller containers (such as tabs) to show less controls at a time. If the user see to many controls at a time, it's already not management. You should think about user's convenience as well, not just about your own.

This my advice is one of the few advices on UI design I listed before. Please see my answer to this question:
GUI Apperance - C#.Net[^].

—SA