[reportlab-users] Strange rendering of radio buttons

[Brijunas, Martynas]

Incidentally, I have found that the following combination renders nicely in Acrobat:

buttonStyle="cross", shape="square"

Martynas



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Hello Martynas,

I'll make a note of this in our bug tracker and if we have time to get to it we can reach out to you in future, thanks for showing us what it looks like on your system,

I haven't seen yet in person what you saw in screenshot 4 interestingly, definitely odd behaviour,

Kind Regards,
Ben Hassell


On Wed, 9 Oct 2024 at 17:37, Brijunas, Martynas <Martynas.Brijunas at msci.com<mailto:Martynas.Brijunas at msci.com>> wrote:
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Hi Ben,

A square radio button behaves better, when rendered in Adobe Acrobat on Windows. There is no change in size of the control during "hover" or "click" events. It does however combine a square and a circle in a single control. Some screenshots below. With regards to your other question ("... does the smaller circle not vanish when you click off leaving just the checked larger circle?"), there is small artifact left behind in the bottom left corner of the control (screenshot 4).

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Hello Martynas,

If the problem is specifically radio buttons you could try the square shaped ones by adding a parameter "shape" to the form.radio commands e.g.
form.radio(name='radio1', value='value2', x=110, y=600, size=12, shape='square')
>From what I've seen this doesn't have the same issues. Unfortunately this can depend on what tool is used to render the pdf.

Since you did match my experience however on windows + acrobat then does the smaller circle not vanish when you click off leaving just the checked larger circle?

Kind Regards,
Ben Hassell

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