Comment on Should a toggle button show its current state or the state to which it will change?

• calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Toggle buttons are not normal buttons, they are toggles. Which have the same functionality as check boxes. They are a toggle between 2 states. The only difference is visual.

  If they toggle more than 2 states, (like a discrete slider), it is the same as a drop-down menu.

  Some widgets are the exact same as others, where the only difference is their visual representation.

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  • SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Again you’re talking about switches. The thread is about normal buttons which have 2 states (the example being given is a button which can be a play button or a pause button depending on the current state). Buttons aren’t like check-boxes, switches are. A button triggers an event, check-boxes don’t. e.g. on a settings page, you tick all the check-boxes you want first, then click on the Save (or Cancel) changes button - one event for multiple changes. You don’t tick a check-box to start playing something, you press a play button.

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    • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah you’re right. Didn’t see it was a crosspost and infered from the title.

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      • SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s ok. Thanks for being big enough to admit you were wrong - these days a lot of people aren’t!

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  • Mesa@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In my opinion, any button in terms of graphical UI design simply dispatches an action with no arguments regarding state. There doesn’t exist a dichotomy between a “toggle” mechanic and a “standard” button as far as the button itself is concerned.

    Whether or not you want to update the visual representation of that button is a separate concern.

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