Timeline for What is the standard convention for ordering On/Off buttons?
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| Jun 29, 2011 at 14:14 | comment | added | Roger Attrill | Hah! well found! How would I toggle left/right alignment? - (theoretically) - well because one of them (left lets say) must be the 'norm' and the other (right) represents right alignment being either on or off, but that specific example is a bit contrived (if you don't mind my saying so :-) | |
| Jun 29, 2011 at 13:47 | comment | added | Jørn E. Angeltveit | If you just have two states in a multi-state groups (eg. [left alignment] and [right alignment]), I would definitely go for the same toggle-solution that the MS Ribbon example has with the four states [left]-[center]-[right]-[block]. How would you toggle this? Toggling left- and right-justification with only one button sounds like a bad idea :-P | |
| Jun 29, 2011 at 13:30 | comment | added | Jørn E. Angeltveit | Hehe. Take a look at this screenshot from MS Visual Studio 2010: i2.visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/… (Source: visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/…) | |
| Jun 29, 2011 at 13:09 | comment | added | Roger Attrill | Toggle button groups, yes - but typically they are not used to represent binary states as in the case of this question - for example there are no binary options in the image in your first link - only opposing actions (increase font, decrease font), or multi-state groups (alignment/justification). Binary states utilize a single toggle button - eg as used for Track Changes or for Protect Document | |
| Jun 29, 2011 at 12:47 | comment | added | Jørn E. Angeltveit | I agree. I don't like the toggle slide button (and I don't find the iOS-version to be any better). Toggle-button-groups are not very uncommon in windows, though (eg the alignment-buttons in the paragraph group: ribbon.anirdesh.com/Images%5CRibbon01.png). And some vendors do provide good slider alternatives. (Eg: tmssoftware.com/site/advsmoothslider.asp) Either way it is very important that the state is unambiguous! | |
| Jun 29, 2011 at 12:36 | history | answered | Roger Attrill | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
