vcl checkbox behaviour

[Noel Power]

On 25/06/12 11:46, Noel Power wrote:
> I wonder is the behaviour that I see here normal or expected ( to me 
> is isn't but I am not very ui-enabled ). Look at the attached jpeg, 
> the first three checkboxes have the Align property set as Left, Center 
> and Right, with no label the checkbox 'box' is aligned within the 
> bounding rectangle of the control according to the 'Align' property. 
> However, if there is a label then the checkbox 'box' is always left 
> aligned and it is the text label that is aligned according to the 
> 'Align' property. Now to my puny brain the latter behaviour ( as if 
> there is a label present ) is what I would expect always. I would like 
> to change the behaviour to be like that, but... the code is obviously 
> and intentionally written to behave in the way described, does this 
> make sense? would it be ok to change this? is it only me that things 
> this is bizarre?
> For context this behaviour is causing me some grief when importing 
> controls from mso formats, I could of course add some flag to the vcl 
> Checkbox[*] class to make it behave like I wish conditionally, note: 
> that also could require the toolbox awt ( and formcontrol ) uno 
> checkbox control to support an extra flag also that could be persisted 
> or their behaviour could independently be changed unconditionally ( 
> and no need to support extra properties ).
> I am somewhat stumbling over what would be best to do, change the 
> underlying vcl class unconditionally ? ( that would imply the uno 
> controls behaviour also changes unconditionally ) or ... if we change 
> the underlying vcl class conditionally what about the uno controls?, 
> should we change them also conditionally? or unconditionally? It would 
> seem to me if there is some consensus that the 'normal' vcl behaviour 
> is not that normal but is 'abnormal' then I would be inclined to 
> change the vcl class unconditionally ( and similarly the behaviour of 
> the dependant uno controls ) Any thoughts ?
>
>
> Noel
>
>
> [*] same issue exists for (at least) for radio buttons

no thoughts anyone ?