Checkbox question

[Pete]

Hi Robert,
Still trying different things here to see which seems to work best in these
circumstances.  I have put a separate label, as you suggest, I think that
works well.
Pete

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Robert Brenstein <rjb at robelko.com> wrote:

> On 18.02.2012 at 13:28 Uhr -0800 Pete apparently wrote:
>
>> In spite of all that, I share your concerns.  Using the autohilite
>> property
>> was a very easy way out of the original question but perhaps the image
>> approach might be better and not a lot more work if I use a behavior
>> script.  If I make it look sufficiently different form a normal checkbox
>> with no hilite just a symbol of some sort to indicate true or false, that
>> might be the best solution.
>>
>
> In some cases, simply disabling the checkbox gives a clue that it can't be
> change, whereas you can still set its hilite through script. You would
> probably want to display the associated text in a field not as label of the
> checkbox, though.
>
> Robert
>
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