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#311 Inconsistent mged GUI menu check box formats

unexpected behavior
open-invalid
Sean Morrison
Geometry Editing (85)
5
2012-05-16
2012-01-18
Tom Browder
No

Most menus show a check mark for checked entries, but the items in the "Settings" menu show dots when checked.

Discussion

  • Sean Morrison

    Sean Morrison - 2012-05-14
    • milestone: --> unexpected behavior
    • assigned_to: nobody --> brlcad
    • status: open --> pending-invalid
     

  • Sean Morrison

    Sean Morrison - 2012-05-14

    Not sure I understand. Screenshot? Some of the settings are mutually exclusive "radio buttons", so you can only select one of them. Those are probably rendered as dots instead of checks. Are they what you are referring to?

    Checkboxes are usually for toggling on/off independent options, not option sets.

     

  • Tom Browder

    Tom Browder - 2012-05-16

    "Settings" menu with representative "radio buttons"

     
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    mged-settings-menu.png

  • Tom Browder

    Tom Browder - 2012-05-16

    I guess the dots are supposed to be radio buttons, but the usual white 3D "holes" are not evident for the non-selected items.

    See attached screen shot.

     

  • Tom Browder

    Tom Browder - 2012-05-16
    • status: pending-invalid --> open-invalid
     

  • Sean Morrison

    Sean Morrison - 2012-05-17

    Ah I see what you mean now. Yeah, that's basically relying on Tk defaults and it looks like they're just sucking. It should look something more like this: http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/perl3/tk/figs/mptk.1201.gif

    I believe that code is in src/tclscripts/mged/openw.tcl if you're feeling ambitious.. :) Could be a simple matter of setting some attribute/property on the menu widget or could beg for a conversion to the new ttk widgets.

     

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