How to get selected radio button from ToggleGroup
Let's say you have a toggle group and three radio buttons belonging to that group.
ToggleGroup group = new ToggleGroup();
RadioButton rb1 = new RadioButton("RadioButton1");
rb1.setUserData("RadioButton1");
rb1.setToggleGroup(group);
rb1.setSelected(true);
RadioButton rb2 = new RadioButton("RadioButton2");
rb2.setUserData("RadioButton2");
rb2.setToggleGroup(group);
RadioButton rb3 = new RadioButton("RadioButton3");
rb3.setUserData("RadioButton3");
rb3.setToggleGroup(group);
When you select a radio button from that toggle group, the following changed(...)
method will be called.
group.selectedToggleProperty().addListener(new ChangeListener<Toggle>(){
public void changed(ObservableValue<? extends Toggle> ov, Toggle old_toggle, Toggle new_toggle) {
if (group.getSelectedToggle() != null) {
System.out.println(group.getSelectedToggle().getUserData().toString());
// Do something here with the userData of newly selected radioButton
}
}
});
@FXML
ToggleGroup right; //I called it right in SceneBuilder.
later somewhere in method.
RadioButton selectedRadioButton = (RadioButton) right.getSelectedToggle();
String toogleGroupValue = selectedRadioButton.getText();
This was never properly or thoroughly answered, so I thought I would post the solution I got.
When you create radio buttons in SceneBuilder
, then ALSO use SceneBuilder
to assign them to a group. The way you access that group via the Controller is to first create a variable of type ToggleGroup
in the Controller and name it the exact same name as the one you created in SceneBuilder
. Then you can use it. Here is a pseudocode example of how I did it:
// your imports
public class Controller
{
@FXML ToggleGroup myGroup; //I called it myGroup in SceneBuilder as well.
public void myGroupAction(ActionEvent action)
{
System.out.println("Toggled: " + myGroup.getSelectedToggle().getUserData().toString());
}
public void initialize()
{
//whatever initialize code you have here
}
}
Although the text returned from the getUserData
property is lengthy. Here is a way to get just the name of the Radio Button:
myGroup.selectedToggleProperty().addListener(new ChangeListener<Toggle>()
{
@Override
public void changed(ObservableValue<? extends Toggle> ov, Toggle t, Toggle t1)
{
RadioButton chk = (RadioButton)t1.getToggleGroup().getSelectedToggle(); // Cast object to radio button
System.out.println("Selected Radio Button - "+chk.getText());
}
});
Hope this helps someone down the road ...