On Tuesday, February 3, 2004, at 05:26 AM, Bj�rnke von Gierke wrote:
Any form of one object having three stages is confusing and extremely nonstandard. Use 3 radiobuttons instead. Short description about how to do that:
1. make 3 radiobuttons, name them "Yes", "No" and "Don't know"
2. group them
3. use the "hilitedButtonName" of the group like this:
put the hilitedButtonName into AnswerToThreefoldQuestion
The problem with the above set is that it does not give the impression of "yes", "no" and "you haven't set this up yet".
I have seen this addressed with two radio buttons (or more) with none selected until the user clicks the first one. After that it works like a radio button group.
I think this might be a hole in HIG, but others would know better than I.
Another approach is to dim Done or Save until the user explicitly selects an option.
All this assumes that there is something wrong with simply using default values, which might be the case in some situations.
Dar Scott
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