Creating Radio Buttons in Flash

Lets Play with RadioButtons today...

First go to window Menu and pull up Components. In the componests window, lets drag onto the stage a RadioButton.



Each one of these radiobuttons components are MOVIECLIPS with Pudding in the middle. (the pudding being the predefined fields if you know what i mean...

First, we give each radiobutton an INSTANCE NAME.



in this example, im going to name it mcQuestion1 <-- (mc - MovieClip)



Every other Radiobutton im going to name the instance name the same but i will just change the number. (Note - this is just a name... its not grouping these buttons together).

Now, lets add DATA, GROUPNAME and a LABEL. in a new layer called ACTIONS, lets put a framescript....

mcQuestion1.label = "Do you like Puppy's?"
mcQuestion1.data = "I like Puppy's";
mcQuestion1.groupName = "questions";

mcQuestion2.label = "Do you like Pizza?"
mcQuestion2.data = "I like Pizza";
mcQuestion2.groupName = "questions";

Label - changes the label of the radiobutton
Data - changes the value of the radiobutton
groupName - keep all the radio buttons together as a group.

to display the results of a selected button, you can store the selected data into a variable of your choice and call upon it when you want. Lets make a var. called "Answer". (var Answer;)

Answer  = questions.selectedData;

Format - GROUPNAME.selectedData (this will give you the result from the radio buttons)

you can now make a button and have it do something like this

on (release){
 selectedButton = GROUP.selectedData;  // selectedButton is a var.
 gotoAndPlay(2)
}

any questions, hit me up.