Re: Programatically creating a checkbox

FROM : Paul Bruneau
DATE : Mon Nov 19 22:33:43 2007

On Nov 19, 2007, at 4:23 PM, mmalc crawford wrote:

> On Nov 19, 2007, at 11:29 AM, Andy Lee wrote:
>

>> On Monday, November 19, 2007, at 12:45PM, "John Stiles" 
>> <<email_removed>> wrote:

>>> You don't think it's even the slightest bit odd that the 
>>> NSButtonCell
>>> docs don't contain the word "checkbox" anywhere on the page? 
>>> Seems like
>>> a no-brainer omission to me. Not all of us came from OpenStep land.

>> I did come from OpenStep land, and I still find it weird (perhaps 
>> because I came from the Mac before NextStep).
>>

> Likewise.  Although curiously I don't immediately see any other 
> feedback or enhancement requests about this, and the document's 
> about a decade old.  That said...


Well, I can recall hunting around for it awhile back but I just 
figured I was dumb so I didn't create any feedback.

I did stumble across this under "Using Switch Buttons" in "Button 
Programming Topics for Cocoa" and just figured "hmm, that's a funny 
name for a checkbox!"

> A switch button displays the setting of something in your 
> application. Another name for a switch button is checkbox.
>


I too come from Mac Toolbox land :)