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Originally Posted by theducks
Another question on the UI
I understand the use of Tick(s) at the first level. But Using a tick instead of a 'radio button' for saved search selection where only one is the rule?
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Menus have specific and limited behavior. For example, they cannot have tool tips and cannot operate as radio button groups. They are really just a collection of (icon, text) pairs. I wanted to indicate which item was last selected, so I chose to use the check icon. I suppose that I could use filled and empty dot icons to make it look like a radio button group, but I am not convinced that doing so would be clearer than the check. It might be worse, because the selection behavior would not be what is expected with a radio button group.
The alternative would be to create a bunch of new dialog boxes that contain radio button groups, but then they would have dialog behavior. In this situation I prefer the speed of being able to navigate the menus without having to open and close dialogs.