vcl checkbox behaviour

[Noel Power]

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
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