check box setting the option of choosing one option

[annak87309989]

in the pdf document in which I make the interactive form I have the fields "Yes" and "No".

I want the buttons to be turned off when the document is turned on. and how do I choose and select "yes" for example, so that the "no" button is inactive. How to do it with the check box? at the moment I have at the selection of the only button, the other active, so it is nonsense.

I do not want to use the radio button because it looks strange, such a square in a square.

[try67]

You can change the appearance of a radio-button, you know...

Anyway, to do it with check-boxes you need to give them the same name but different export values.

[annak87309989]

how to change the appearance of the radio button would not be a square in the square?

[try67]

Go to the field's Properties, Options tab, and change the Button Style to Circle or something like that.

[annak87309989]

however, I would choose to make a check box and configure it to work like a radio button.
because the radio button must be active one of the values ​​yes or no. and in the check box it may be that none is active. Unless you can do it in a radio button, if so how?

[Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com]

Unless you can do it in a radio button, if so how?

Easy!

In the Properties / Options, UNcheck the option "Button is checked by default" for both values, Yes and No.

[annak87309989]

how to set in properties to get an identical checkbox?

[try67]

What do you mean? Identical in what way?

[annak87309989]

I want it to look the same - 100% the same. I do not know how to set the property correctly to go out the same checkbox

[try67]

This layout is not possible for a check-box in a PDF form. You can use 2 buttons with icons for the on/off states, though, and then show/hide them when the user clicks them.

[annak87309989]

so how exactly do you propose to implement it? can you describe the steps in detail?

[try67]

Create two (overlapping) buttons and apply the on- and off-state images as their icons. When each button is clicked you can set it up to hide itself and show the other. It's not exactly the same as a check-box as buttons don't have values, but the visual effect you're after will be achieved.

[annak87309989]

and how to set a button to make a checkbox. because I have these buttons for the Yes and NO forms, so one must be checked or the other or none. how to implement it in a button?

[annak87309989]

and is it possible to make an option button 100% compatible with the layout using the button radio?

[annak87309989]

and whether it is possible to implement a checkbox from the layout in some other way - to get the same effect

[Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com]

Let me try to summarize what you want to do:

You want them to function like radio buttons (that is, when one is selected the other is deactivated). But you want them to look like checkboxes.

The solution: Set them up as radio buttons so that you get the functionality you want (yes or no, but not both).

And then change the appearance of them in the Properties panel to look like checkmarks. You can alter the appearance under Properties/Appearance and /Options