design of radio-button choice

[Charles Hartman]

Thanks -- and to Alex, too -- I hadn't thought of grouping the check- 
boxes. I'm first going to try a simpler & more permissive approach  
and see how the user-experience feels, but if that's not satisfactory  
I'll do the second group.

But either way, there's something I still don't quite understand  
about the messaging.

I know how to find out which of a group of radio buttons has been  
pressed -- but I'm not quite clear how to know when one (any) has  
been pressed, that is, when to check the result. Do I just use a  
mouseUp handler attached to the group (of radio buttons)? That looks  
promising and I'll try it. However:

If the check-boxes are also in a group, presumably I should manage  
them from a script attached to their group, too. In a mouseUp  
handler? But their "radioBehavior" will be false (more than one can  
be hilited, no auto-de-hiliting), so hilitedButton won't work. How do  
I tell, in that mouseUp handler, which one was pressed?

Is there a tutorial on this stuff? I haven't seen one but I may be  
looking in the wrong place. I know it's pretty basic, but I'm  
confused. Thanks again for the patience & advice.

Charles


On Aug 4, 2005, at 3:46 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:

> When you say "wait", what do you really mean? Do you mean you want  
> to force the user to click on a radio button before doing anything  
> else? Or do you literally mean you want to force a delay of some sort?
>
> Assuming the former, one easy way to do this would be to put the  
> checkboxes in a group and the radio buttons in a group and then  
> when the user checks a checkbox, disable the checkbox group until  
> he clicks a radio button. Then in the radio button group, re-enable  
> the checkbox group.
>
> Close?
>
> On Aug 4, 2005, at 12:38 PM, Charles Hartman wrote:
>
>
>> So I want is that when the user clicks a check-box, I wait until  
>> the user picks one of the radio buttons
>>
>
>
>
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