Re: How to tell highlighted from selected items in multi-select menu?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Adam Spragg wrote:

> Thanks for the reply.
>
> On Monday 09 June 2008 00:44:09 Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 04:48:01PM +0100, Adam Spragg wrote:
> > > The problem is that it appears to be impossible for the user to
> > > distinguish between the currently highlighted item and selected
> > > items.
> >
> > reading the code, I don't see any different conclusion.
> >
> > The file menu/m_post.c, function _nc_Post_Item() does all
> > of the work for this detail.
>
> Damn. Hmmm. Any idea how I ought to go about this? Should I be using
> something other than the menu to give the user what is effectively a
> set of checkboxes?

It did seem like a reasonable idea.  Perhaps adding a function to set the 
colors for the current item (overriding "fore") would be enough.

dialog uses separate widgets for the checkbox/radiobox and menu-list 
though.

> I've looked through the form library documentation and there doesn't
> appear to be any way of doing checkboxes there either. The closest
> would appear to be an enum field with "true" and "false" options (Or
> could I use "X" and " " with some event/driver hackery to get space to
> toggle the selection?) but that doesn't seem right somehow.



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