[Interest] GUI help/opinion check boxes

Joseph Crowell joseph.w.crowell at gmail.com
Thu Jul 25 10:23:59 CEST 2013


On 7/25/2013 6:22 PM, Yves Bailly wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Le 25/07/2013 10:15, Graham Labdon a écrit :
>> As part of my application the user needs to be able to select from a set of up to 64 options.
>>
>> Any combination is allowed and I need a method of selecting/de-selecting all of the options. As a
>> starting point I am showing (up to) 64 check boxes but by default these are 'ticked' which does not
>> look particularly pleasing.
>>
>> Has anyone got any ideas on how best to implement this?
> Maybe try to display 64 toggle buttons. Functionaly it's the same as a checkbox, but
> you may be able to make them rather nice-looking with a good CSS.
>
> See QAbstractButton::setCheckable() and use it on e.g. QPushButton.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
I was thinking the same thing with a QToolButton. The toggle buttons 
from Meego Harmattan's settings interface were pretty nice.



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