Re: Checkbox group box (was Re: Coloring NSBox background?)

FROM : Chris Ridd
DATE : Sat Nov 23 21:11:32 2002

On 23/11/02 8:03 pm, Clark S. Cox III <<email_removed>> wrote:

>
> On Saturday, Nov 23, 2002, at 14:47 US/Eastern, Chris Ridd wrote:
>
>> On 23/11/02 7:35 pm, Dustin Voss <<email_removed>> wrote:
>>> There's a Carbon control which is a group box similar to NSBox, except
>>> that the title has a checkbox beside it, so you can activate or
>>> deactivate the box as a whole. Very useful. I think that's what Steve
>>> is talking about.
>>
>> It was. (Steve confirmed this off-list.)
>>
>> I just checked in the HIG and Apple discourages having group boxes
>> that are
>> also buttons - see pages 149 to 152.
>
> I don't see anywhere in that page range that they discourage using
> check boxes or popup menus as the title of a group box, in fact, at the
> bottom of page 149, it says "Group boxes can be untitled or titled.
> Titles can be static text, a checkbox label, or text in a pop-up menu".

Perhaps I read too much into "use additional space between controls to
create groups of controls, rather than group boxes. [...]  The
following figures show examples of how to successfully re-create dialogs
using space rather than group boxes."

Figure 8-3 is an example where before has a button in the box title, and the
after doesn't.

Maybe they do allow them after all.

Cheers,

Chris
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