Question

I need to create a group of 5 buttons. Only one can be pressed, like Radio Button, but I do not want to show the circle. I would like to use the button look.

Somebody do know which is the best way to do it?

I have found for WPF:

<RadioButton Style="{StaticResource {x:Type ToggleButton}}" />

but it does not work for Windows 8.

Thank you

Answer 1

Is this a group of actual buttons with an action assigned to the click event of each, or are you just trying to remove the circle form a RadioButton type control?

Please note that the user will likely expect a RadioButton control to look and feel like a RadioButton. Changing this just for the sake of it may not be a good idea, but if you want to go ahead with it you could try one of the following options.

1) Edit the template for a radiobutton control to hide the selcetion circle. (I don’t know if that’s even possible in all honesty, but in theory, it should be)
or
2) Emulate the behaviour with a ListView with SelctionMode set to “Single”

Things get a little more complicated if you want to handle click events on each “button”, but it is not impossible. In your ItemTemplate, add a button (presumable with a style of “TextButtonStyle”) and set the event handler of the Click event to check which button was pressed and act accordingly.