Re: Word to describe an empty check box

[Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca>]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 5:31 AM, Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- cytomedix -dot- com>wrote:

> <sigh> This is also from MSTP:
>
...
>


Yeah. I was on crack. Wouldn't be the first Canadian to do so...

So I was confusing "selecting" and "unselecting" options, vs "checking" and
"clearing" check boxes.

I don't know where I got "enabled" from.

It should be pretty straightforward to use the adjectival forms:

Options:
- selected
- not selected

Check boxes:
- checked
- cleared

BTW: If you document for Windows systems, they're "check boxes". If you
document for Mac systems, they're "checkboxes".

I guess that's why in general I choose to avoid writing about the controls
because they would be different on every platform.

-Tony


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