vcl checkbox behaviour

[Noel Power]

On 28/06/12 19:02, Jan Holesovsky wrote:
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> Actually the "for quite a while" spans to 
> 8ab086b6cc054501bfbf7ef6fa509c393691e860, the inital import of 
> button.cxx to CVS :-( - it has been imported in 2000 with this already 
> in place. Looking deeper, I thought that the 'alignment of checkboxes 
> without text' behavior might make sense for the dialogs like Tools -> 
> Options -> Load/Save -> Microsoft Office and alike, where you'd want 
> to center the checkbox;
sure and any such instances could be covered by setting the bounding box 
of the checkbox appropriately I guess
> but it seems to me that it is actually SvLBoxButton that is used 
> there, not CheckBox.
so no issue there ( but don't forget radio buttons afaict are also 
treated the same way and probably would make sense to change them also )
> So - can you in any way check if we are actually using this CheckBox 
> feature anywhere in the UI? [Ie. if we construct a CheckBox without 
> text, but with WB_CENTER or WB_RIGHT?] If we do not use it, I'd get 
> rid of that [even in UNO controls and everywhere], as you proposed. 
> Regards, Kendy 
yes, I will try to check ( hopefully without missing anything ) :-) I 
would also like to make an enhancement to really control the alignment 
of the control itself e.g. either left or right. This would not affect 
the behaviour previously described ( which is more about the 
justification of the label ) but the position of the label relative to 
the control e.g.

- control aligned left:

[x] some label

- control aligned right:

some label [x]

again such an enhancement is driven by interoperability but... one step 
at a time :-)

Noel