Re: Word to describe an empty check box

[Keith Hood <bus -dot- write -at- gmail -dot- com>]

What's wrong with "marked" and "unmarked"?


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> wrote:

> 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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