I would assume the reasonable use case associated with this toggle was derived from the "active links" concept of HTML. If you apply that you could put things into perspective!
For example, flex applications are typically associated with single-screen applications. And any user-interaction anywhere on the screen might result in a change in data somewhere on the same screen. This would now require the user to be informed about the button that he clicked that resulted in the current result! Considering other controls such as checkbox, tabs, etc, the button would also assume the same behaviours. Sree Ashish Goyal wrote: > Toggle button can be used in many ways. It shows visually that if its > in a selected state or not as well as you can get or set the state of > the button programmatically using the "selected" property of the > button. It returns true if the toggle button is selected and false if > its not selected. > I don't have really good use case off hand but for eg. say you are > creating a really simple math app with four buttons for addition, > subtraction, multiplication and division with two input text boxes and > a result textbox. If you use the toggle buttons instead of normal > buttons user will know by looking at the button state the result in > the result box is the output of which mathematical function. > > -Ashish > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Devin Holloway > *Sent:* Friday, July 22, 2005 2:28 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [flexcoders] Re: Button toggle clarification > > Thank you for pointing that out. I do see it now. Though, it doesn't > seem all that useful, unless I'm missing the greater purpose. It's > not like a random user understand the purpose. > > > --- In [email protected], "Ashish Goyal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > You should be able to see a halo around the toggled button when you > > click. Its same as the halo you see in mouseover state. > > > > -Ashish > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Devin Holloway > > Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 1:28 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [flexcoders] Button toggle clarification > > > > > > the button control has a toggle attribute. according to the > flex > > docs, > > > > "Specifies whether a button can be toggled, true, or acts > like a > > > > pushbutton, false. The default value is false." > > > > My initial assumption was that if you set toggle to true, then > > if you > > clicked a button, it would remain in the pressed state until > you > > click > > it again. But this isn't so. To experiment, I created two > button > > > > controls, side by side, one with toggle set to true, and the > > other > > false. I couldn't find any difference whatsoever. So obviously > > it > > doesn't affect anything visually. > > > > So my question is, what's it for? 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