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

FROM : Clark S. Cox III
DATE : Sat Nov 23 21:03:28 2002

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".
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