c# - Getting the index of the selected RadioButton in a group

Question

I have got a reference to a RadioButton rb1.
How can I get the index of the selected RadioButton in rb1's group ?
I have googled for a while but without success.

Any help will be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

Well short answer to your question is you don't. What you should do is bind RadioButton.IsChecked to some boolproperty of your view model. You can achieve something like group index by binding int property of your view model via your implementation of IValueConverter:

View Model property:

private int _groupIndex = 1;

public int GroupIndex
{
   get { return _groupIndex; }
   set
   {
       if (_groupIndex == value) return;
       _groupIndex = value;
       OnPropertyChanged("GroupIndex");
   }
}

Converter:

public class IndexBooleanConverter : IValueConverter
{
  public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
  {
      if (value == null || parameter == null)
          return false;
      else
          return (int)value == System.Convert.ToInt32(parameter);
  }

  public object ConvertBack(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
  {
      if (value == null || parameter == null)
          return null;
      else if ((bool)value)
          return System.Convert.ToInt32(parameter);
      else
          return DependencyProperty.UnsetValue;
  }
}   

and then you bind it like this:

<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
   <StackPanel.Resources>
       <local:IndexBooleanConverter x:Key="IndexBooleanConverter"/>
   </StackPanel.Resources>
   <RadioButton Content="Option1" IsChecked="{Binding Path=GroupIndex, Converter={StaticResource IndexBooleanConverter}, ConverterParameter=1}"/>
   <RadioButton Content="Option2" IsChecked="{Binding Path=GroupIndex, Converter={StaticResource IndexBooleanConverter}, ConverterParameter=2}"/>
   <RadioButton Content="Option3" IsChecked="{Binding Path=GroupIndex, Converter={StaticResource IndexBooleanConverter}, ConverterParameter=3}"/>
</StackPanel>

In this case your view model property GroupIndex will have values 1, 2 or 3 depending on what RadioButton is ticked