How do I make a radiobutton look like a toggle button?

Question

Windows Phone 7: How do I make a radiobutton look like a toggle button? I am trying to get the selected radio button to look like a depressed button.

Basically I have a filter by 'FName', 'LName' radio button over my list of names. RadioButton takes up too much screen space. A depressed button will save the space used by the 'O'

Answer 1

You can try changing your Xaml to specify a ToggleButton which is the base class for RadioButtons and CheckBox's, but since it is a ToggleButton you will have to interlock them in the Checked and UnChecked events. See this article and this MSDN information. Your only other option would be to create a new Style for your RadioButtons.

From:

<RadioButton  Content="First Name" Height="72" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="38,92,0,0" Name="FName" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="102" />

To:

<ToggleButton Content="First Name" Height="72" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="38,92,0,0" Name="FName" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="102" />

Answer 2

You can only do this if you overwrite the template radio button.

In WPF, we can use the following "hack":

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

I believe that this does not work for WP7. I suggest you create your own style of 0. You can use the Expression Blend to facilitate your work. Look about writing styles that should help.