Radio buttons that don't look like radio buttons

[Howard Bornstein]

I think if you just set the icon and the hilite icon of the radio buttons to
graphics of different colors, it will do what you want.

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Regards,

Howard Bornstein
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On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 7:13 PM, David Glasgow <
david at dvglasgow.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Revolutionaries,
>
> I have several cards containing many radio buttons, and want to have a
> summary screen which consists of an array of colour indicators reflecting
> the status of the scattered radio buttons.  I remembered that many years ago
> I made some radio buttons that didn't look like radio buttons (they were
> intended to function and look a bit like the pop up - down mechanical
> buttons on old cassette recorders). So I set out the summary card with radio
> buttons which are set and reset by user actions on corresponding groups on
> the relevant card.  That works fine.  A brief script built around
>
> set the hilitedbutton of  SummaryGroupOnCard1  to the hilitedbutton of the
> owner of the target
>
> does the trick.
>
> However, the summary display can't look like radio buttons in the final
> product, because users will quite reasonably expect to be able to click on
> them.  I planned to change the properties of the summary buttons after I had
> finished laying out and scripting the cards the users will actually interact
> with.
>
> When the time came, I started to set and tweak properties and colours of
> the buttons on the summary card, but couldn't get the simple plain colour
> patch which switches on or off mutually exclusively with its fellow group
> members.
>
> After maybe an hour of futile clicking, I set out to find the buttons I
> made years ago, and to my amazement succeeded.  However, I *still* can't
> find out how I made the radio buttons not have the little radio button blob
> in the middle.  There is no scripting involved, and no icons.   They do have
> hilited text and fill colours that match - if they don't, a little dot
> appears when selected, like old Win radio buttons (I am on OS X).
> Selection is only indicated by a change in the border.  However, even though
> I have matched as many properties and colours as I can find, my new radio
> buttons insist on having the radio button blob.
>
> I know I could just copy the little group I have, and use them, but this is
> really bugging me.  Was I quite clever years ago, or am I being quite dumb
> now?
>
> David Glasgow
>
>
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