Could you please help me work this out? I have three buttons and when I select one, I want the other...

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[Nat Strangerweather]

Could you please help me work this out? I have three buttons and when I select one, I want the other two to be disabled until I unselect it. I can't figure out out to put that into code. I thought that this would work (at least for the first button):

if (option.id == 0) {
                for (o in listOfOptions) {
                    when (o.id) {
                        1 -> enabled = false
                        2 -> enabled = false
                    }
                }
            }

But all my 3 buttons are disabled when I do this... 🤔

[Sam]

What is enabled? Should it be something like o.enabled instead?

[Sam]

Based on what you described, I would expect something more like:

for (o in listOfOptions) {
    o.enabled = (o.id == 0)
}

[Nat Strangerweather]

ah yes, that worked!

[Nat Strangerweather]

I mean o.enabled worked

[Nat Strangerweather]

but the code you suggest looks a lot better. Thanks!

[Paul Griffith]

depending on your UI framework, there might also be a way to state “these buttons are mutually exclusive” that’s cleaner to implement/read

[Nat Strangerweather]

I'm using Jetpack Compose.

[Nat Strangerweather]

The problem with Radio Buttons is that the user does not need to switch one off in order to use the other ones.

[Chris Lee]

that’s not right - by definition, radio buttons are mutually exclusive. In contrast to say checkboxes where multiples can be selected.

[Nat Strangerweather]

Ah, yes, I see what you mean. Ok, that's the way to go! Cheers.