RE: RE: Nitpicky little style question

["Andrew Warren" <awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com>]

Gene Kim-Eng wrote:

> The only reason I can think of for describing the
> button with an adjective would be if they were
> labeled that way, either on a panel or in a UI.
> For example, if there were five buttons, labeled
> "1" through "5," with a bracket around them labeled
> "Options."

Ah, ANOTHER reason not to call radio buttons "option buttons":  In most
non-trivial applications, there's already at least one dialog, menu
item, window, page, etc. titled "Options".  If the documentation refers
to an "option button", is it talking about a button in the "options"
dialog/menu/window, or about one of a set of mutually-exclusive choices
somewhere else?

The same confusion could exist for "radio button", I guess, but only in
the very rare applications that have a dialog or window called "Radio".

-Andrew

=== Andrew Warren  - awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com
=== Synaptics, Inc - Santa Clara, CA
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