I have a quick question about buttons that toggle between two states. (Think Play/Pause, or Shuffle/Regular Play.) As the title says, should the toggle show it's current state or the state to which...
This would be correct if the post was about switches (which TBF many people made that mistake, including me initially), but it’s about buttons - buttons should show what action will result from clicking on them. e.g. “Cancel” on a button which is going to cancel your process. For a play/pause button it should show play if you’re paused (if I click on this it will start playing) and pause if you’re playing (if I click on this it will pause).
oh yeah true, I was thinking of toggle buttons instead of buttons that keep their state/don’t release: like the formatting buttons (bold, italic, underline, …) in a word processor. The latter strangely are also named ToggleButtons so that’s a big confusion.
Yeah, the wording isn’t clear, and some people are talking about switches and some people are talking about buttons. I work with MAUI, and in MAUI a “ToggleButton” is called a Switch, so there’s no confusion there, but the OP specifically said a button which toggles. i.e. a button which has 2 states instead of just one. A play button which turns into a pause button when you press it and vice-versa. I think the OP may have been confused between switches and buttons themselves - which are indeed labelled in opposite ways to each other (switch - current state, button - state that it will cause to happen when pressed) - which led to the question.
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This would be correct if the post was about switches (which TBF many people made that mistake, including me initially), but it’s about buttons - buttons should show what action will result from clicking on them. e.g. “Cancel” on a button which is going to cancel your process. For a play/pause button it should show play if you’re paused (if I click on this it will start playing) and pause if you’re playing (if I click on this it will pause).
oh yeah true, I was thinking of toggle buttons instead of buttons that keep their state/don’t release: like the formatting buttons (bold, italic, underline, …) in a word processor. The latter strangely are also named ToggleButtons so that’s a big confusion.
Yeah, the wording isn’t clear, and some people are talking about switches and some people are talking about buttons. I work with MAUI, and in MAUI a “ToggleButton” is called a Switch, so there’s no confusion there, but the OP specifically said a button which toggles. i.e. a button which has 2 states instead of just one. A play button which turns into a pause button when you press it and vice-versa. I think the OP may have been confused between switches and buttons themselves - which are indeed labelled in opposite ways to each other (switch - current state, button - state that it will cause to happen when pressed) - which led to the question.