Menu State Indicators

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Menu State Indicators

Menu state indicators are either check marks or radio marks. The graphic representation of these marks depends on your host.

Menus with check marks always act as toggles: they turn a feature on or off. The presence of a check mark indicates the presence of that feature. Toggles are especially useful in graphs, since most graphic features are either on or off.

Menus with radio marks do not toggle; they indicate the current state among multiple choices. As with check marks, radio marks help when the current state is not obvious.

For example, the pop-up menu in Figure 1.10 is from a scatter plot. The check marks indicate that axes and observations are displayed and that the marker size is chosen automatically to fit the graph. The radio mark indicates that the current marker size is 4.

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Figure 1.10: Scatter Plot Pop-up Menu

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