Paul, If the image is too low, add 2 rows of transparent pixels at the bottom of the image.
-- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Use Color Converter to convert CMYK, RGB, RAL, XYZ, H.Lab and other colour spaces. http://www.color-converter.com We have time for new software development projects. Contact me for a quote. On 29 dec 2012, at 22:44, Paul Foraker wrote: > 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? > _______________________________________________ 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
