Re: UI design problem - exclusive checkboxes

Koms Bomb wrote:


I have a UI design problem.

I have four checkboxes, each one is one function and whenever one is
selected, the other checkboxes should be invalid (unchecked).
You may say radio boxes are the best choice, but I must allow all
checkboxes unchecked, that's to say, the user can leave all checkboxes
unchecked.

I have two solutions:

1, Add another checkbox to control the state and change the four
checkboxes to radio boxes, that checkbox controls the enable/disable
of the radio boxes. However, such solution require the user two
clicks to select a function. Those functions are often used and I
hope the user can do one click to select.

2, Two clicks again but maybe better? Use a combo box instead of the
checkboxes and set the items as 'None', 'Function 1', 'Function 2',
etc.

I now just use four checkboxes and the user can select/clear them
freely, but it's very ambiguous.

Which solution is better? Or do yo have another better solution?

PS: I'm learning UI design now. Where is the best place to discuss UI
topics? Web forum, newsgroup or maillist are OK.

Thanks in advance.

Why not use Radio buttons and add one more to deselect all:

O None
O Function 1
O Function 2
O Function 3
O Function 4

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