Custom radio button icons

Devin Asay devin_asay at byu.edu
Tue Oct 13 16:23:06 EDT 2015


> On Oct 13, 2015, at 2:07 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
> 
> I need to assign a custom icon for a whole lot of radio buttons. I want them to use the same spacing as the default radio button: icon at the left, a small margin, then the button text.
> 
> Assigning a custom icon draws it at the right. Setting the textalign to "right" moves the icon to the correct place at the left, but the button text is pushed to the right margin. I want the text to be offset the same distance from the icon as the default radio button.
> 
> I can resize the button to push the text over to the left, but I don't want to because the stack is internationalized and every button is currently wide enough to accomodate all languages it supports.
> 
> If I set the iconGravity to "left" instead, the icon and text are drawn on top of each other at the left margin.
> 
> If I really do have to resize them all, it will have to be dynamically on preOpenCard which I'd like to avoid. It seems like there has to be an easier way. Is there?

Jacque, 

I’ve run into this before, and the only thing I was able to do was adjust the right margin to push the text to the left to where I wanted it.

Devin


Devin Asay
Office of Digital Humanities
Brigham Young University



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