Get the value from my radio button.

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Hello,

I would assume this is a really simple things, but Ive been googling and searching and trying, and I cant manage to get the value from my radio button control (if there is an API somewhere where I can find this and more Id love a link).

Ive made a form with a dialog pattern where I have the radio buttons populated from an enum, and then an okay/cancel button. When I press okay Id like to know what enum has been selected.

The best Ive been able to do at the moment is:

/info(int2Str(FormRadioButtonControl1.selection()));/

Which tells me what the number in the enum array it is. And I can probably use that (is there good way to get the actual enum value from the array number?), but I also assume there is a way to get the enum right away.

Another thing I noticed is that there are 4 values in my enum, and from my selection solution above the first one gives me 0, second 1, third 2, and the fourth give me 4. Why does it skip 3? Is this a problem, maybe selection is not doing what I think it is?

Thanks for help.

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Dushatar 26 on at

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Get the value from my radio button.

Thank you Martin Dráb and Layan Jwei. Both your suggestions work.

Ive tried to mark your replies as answers, but when I do the site just get stuck loading. Not sure if there is a problem at the moment or something weird on my side. Ill try again tomorrow.
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Martin Dráb 230,466 Most Valuable Professional on at

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If the control is bound to a data source field, use the field directly, such as myTable.MyField.

If it's an unbound control, use selection(), as you do, but assign the value to a variable with the type of your enum. For example:

MyEnum selectedValue = FormRadioButtonControl1.selection();

That the numeric values of enum elements aren't consecutive isn't a problem. You normally don't need to (or should) work with the numbers. You should use enum elements.
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Layan Jwei 7,266 Super User 2024 Season 2 on at

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Get the value from my radio button.

Hi Dushatar,

Regarding your 1st question, I think you should be able to get the enum value by using this:
info(FormRadioButtonControl1.valueStr());

and if you would like an enum object then
Enum enum; //replace this with your enum value
Info(strFmt("%1",str2Enum(enum, FormRadioButtonControl1.valueStr())));
For the 2nd question: there is no issue but to understand why, is the enum you are using, has the property "IsExtensible" as false? if yes, then look at the enum value for each one, maybe it's marked 0,1,2,4
Here's what I mean:

Thanks,
Layan Jweihan

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