Click a Boolean to true

[guangdew1]

I'm having a difficult time on how to express it. I want to use the word "click" to express "click a Boolean to true" and "unclick" to express "click a Boolean to false", just like check and uncheck to a checkbox ("Boolean here is a on/off switch), but don't know whether it's acceptable (the spell check doesn't even like the word "unclick"). Do we have a better way to express it?

Please advise.

Thanks.

[JonN]

Enable/Disable

[AKA_TG]

If I understand your Q The label to the boolean should clearly represent an intended action when clicked.

"On"  or "OFF" are very clear

"Click a boolean" to true is not.

Forgive me if I totally mis-understand.

[guangdew1]

Hi AKA_TG,

Thanks for the reply.

Because this is a virtual swtch, usually it means to activate an action, not a power on/off switch. If we have a button "Pause", should we say turn the "Pause" button on, or off? I feel not very comfortable using it this way.

[altenbach]

It is not clear where your suggested text goes. Is this the boolean text of the button?

You have to be very clear in order not to confuse the user. Labeling one state ON and the other state OFF can lead to confusion, because ON could either mean "press this to turn on" or it could also be interpreted as "it is currently on".

Could you be more specific how you intend to use that text?

I probaby would use something simple, such as "turn on", "turn  off".

[guangdew1]

Just like the "Pause' button, it will pause the test program, "Pause" is also the Boolean text. I'd like to express "click it to true", this will pause the program. I can say "click the pause button to true", or "turn on the pause button", or do we have something simpler and easy to understand?

Thanks for responding.

[_Bryan]

You can also use color to help indicate what the boolean is actually doing.  For a pause button when OFF you can have it gray like the front panel and when it is clicked have it turn green to indicate that it is actually doing something.  It really depends on how many different people will use the program and how simple it needs to be. 

If only a few people use the program it is easy to just tell them how it works or ask what works best for them.

[guangdew1]

Bryan,

Thanks for the post. I think LabVIEW's default user interface is okay, my difficulty here is to express it in words. I really like to use the words "click" and "unclick" for "turn on" and "turn off" actions, I'm looking for something simple and accurate in words.

[Luis_AM3C]

Hi,

     Press/Release.

Best Regards,

[guangdew1]

Hi Luis,

I like the word "release", it precisely expresses the action of "click a button to false". But "press" is similar to "click", it goes either ways: we can press a button down or we can press to release a button. Bad thing is we don't have the word "unpress" or "unclick", or we don't have these words defined as we like. If there's no better way, should we just use the press down/release pair?