Wow, I can't believe that there's no one else (other than me and Naomi) who thinks this is a bad design and counter-intuitive!!! Well, no one else who's replied anyway.

Think about it this way guys ... paper forms with checkboxes. Users know how to use checkboxes on a paper form! Why would an electronic version of that be any different?

~~Bonnie


>>It will be my pleasure <g>. I already mentioned before that I have a check box on my VFP form that when checked says "Active". And when unchecked it says "Inactive". The caption to this check box says "Project Status". I know that you will say "this is so obvious, why do you need this redundancy?". I do, believe me, with my customers, I do. You won't believe how many times - even with this redundant caption - they call me and say something like "How come this project is not showing on the report?" Even though it clearly says on the form "Inactive". So I need to make the forms in WinForms work exactly (or as close as possible) to the VFP form.
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>It does appear that your users are confused, and that's my point.
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>If I see a CheckBox with Text that says "Active" and a check-mark in it, I'll assume that clicking and un-checking will make it inactive. So if I clicked to un-check it, I would expect to see no check-mark but the Text still says "Active". No check-mark in the CheckBox means it's not active.
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>But, since you change the Text to say "Inactive" when there's no check-mark in the box, then I, as a user, would expect that checking that box would make it Inactive, because that's what the text says. After all, the purpose of a checkbox is basically to say "this text is true or false" ... IOW, "Active" is true when checked and false when unchecked.
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>~~Bonnie