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Subject:Re: Buttons: Radio vs. Radial? From:"Susan W. Gallagher" <sgallagher -at- EXPERSOFT -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:09:26 -0800
>In Visual Basic, they are referred to as radio buttons. Why? Good question,
>as they're not really buttons.
The term "radio buttons" was (is?) the official name of the widget
in OS/2. The reference is to the buttons on a car radio -- you push
one in, one pops out. Windows has always called them option buttons.
