UI design: combobox or radiobuttons?

[Alan Gauld]

On 13/04/2021 22:53, Rich Shepard wrote:

> While a set of radiobuttons occupies more room on the parent widget than
> does a combobox are there any technical or user issues that would suggest
> using one over the other?

readability?
If the combo box puts the units immediately beside the value then
it will be more readable than if it is a row of radio buttons
above/below or beside the value.

But if the radio buttons represent a unit choice that applies
to all values on the screen then that is more noticeable and
thus more readable than a single small combobox choice
lurking in a corner somewhere.

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