Visual Basic Question?

Question

What is one advantage of ComboBox over RadioButton?

Any info will help... :)

If you have more than 1 advantage... its fine,
more info, the more I could understand

Answer 1

Hi,
These are "TWO Different Things" so what is your Question about ????, do you mean a "Tick Box & radioButton" ????
A Combo box can hold "Text or values etc"
A RadioButton can hold only True or false Logic, and only one is active at a time (but you can change this??).

Please I.M me if you need help.

Answer 2

Simple... A combo box will take up less room on a form than a bank of radio buttons. And it will allow for a user input outside of the predefined ones listed.

Answer 3

Here is a good source to answer your question:

http://www.mycsharpcorner.com/Post.aspx?postID=20

Basically, you use the ComboBox when you have more choices than say 5 choices, and to save space on your web form.

Answer 4

An advantage of Combo? not features?

- Combo Box can be editable.
- Combo Box has many style. (drop down, drop list etc.)
- Combo Box use few space because its choices are hidden.

Answer 5

Searching for

ui design combo box radio buttons
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oGkmKirA5GPzcAhyel87UF?ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&p=ui+design+combo+box+radio+buttons&fspl=1

I came across the following pages

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/w-berry3/index.html

http://www.mackido.com/Interface/ComboBox.html

The first one explains when to use combo boxes. The
second one says combo boxes are bad.

From my own experience, I use radio buttons if the
number of choice is small (e.g. 2-4), if the user has to choose
frequently among the choices, and if there is plenty
of screen real-estate (e.g. dialog). I use
combo boxes if there isn't screen real-estate (e.g. toolbar)
if there are many choices (e.g. 52 states), and if the user
doesn't have to make a choice that often.