The Mac interface guidelines indicate that a checkbox has two states, checked and unchecked. Except when it has a third state, dashed, indicating that not all the conditions are met for checking or unchecking.
I have a field "states" containing a list of the states of the U.S. and a set of checkboxes for the regions: Northeast, East, West, etc. If the user clicks Northeast, the checkbox gets checked, and the associated states get hilited in the field. If the user then clicks in the "states" field to unhilite New York, the state of the Northeast checkbox should change to "dashed". I tried converting the checkboxes to a list in a field and setting char 1 of each line to an image of a checkbox checked, unchecked, or dashed. That doesn't work because the baseline of the name of the region appears at the baseline of the image; that is, too low. The label (Northeast) needs to appear at the midline of the image. I don't see a way to move the image down on the line. Another approach would be to put a transparent field containing a dash over the checkbox, in its unchecked state. Handling the location and multiple ways the state can change started to get awkward and unwieldy. Is there a better way to do this? Thanks -- Paul _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
