[Checkbox Skin]

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• Description: checkboxes in dialogs, toolbars and webpages
• Version: at least since 9.0 in skin.ini, at least since 9.0 implemented
• Visible: eg in the Tools→ Preferences→ Advanced dialog / eg in the Appearance→ Buttons dialog (drag and drop to any toolbar) / eg on MyOpera Forums- Advanced search
• Related: Radio button skin: radio buttons in dialogs and webpages, 9.0›
  - related is also the `Checkmark =` entry in [Images]; checkboxes in menus, refers to the same icon file as the `Checkbox skin.selected`, see also the note 1 downwards the page.

• Padding: -
• Margin: -
• Spacing: -
• Color: ✔
• Colorize: ✔
• Border/Border color: ✔
• Text color: -
• Text bold: -
• Text underline: -
• Text shadow/Text shadow color: -
• Text zoom: -
• Blend: -
• Child: ✔
• Clone: ✔
• If no image / no color in the section, you see: Nothing, resp. the bg behind it

Important: Never change the `Type = Box` entry and never change the `Width = 16` and `Height = 14` entries - otherwise the checkboxes may disappear!

About Section entries
About Defaults

• Section-types: -
• Section-states: .hover, .disabled, .selected, .pressed

About Section types and states

• If no section, Info-Version 3 and
  - Options-Fallback foreground 1, you see: [Checkbox Skin] from standard-skin
  - Options-Fallback foreground 0, you see: Nothing
• If no section, Info-Version 2 and
  - Options-Fallback foreground 1, you see: [Checkbox Skin] from standard-skin
  - Options-Fallback foreground 0, you see: Nothing

About Fallback

• Note 1: the `Checkmark = checkbox/selected.png` entry in [Images] (checkboxes in menus) refers to the same icon file as the `Checkbox skin.selected`, so you should set for both calls the same colorize behaviour (explicitly 1 for both or explicitly 0 for both) - otherwise it can be that unselected and selected have a different colorize behaviour like in the standard-skin for Opera 10 (done since Opera 10.10 !)


• Note 2: at first glance the behaviour of the checkbox skin seems to be completely different than described in `Section entries - Width/Height` (defined as box type, but an icon size change to 160% have unsightly effects at least in dialogs), but there is a simple reason: the image-files `checkbox/unselected.png`/`checkbox/selected.png` are called also from the entries `Checkmark`/`Checkmark.selected` in [Images] (for menus) and the call there is the first call - so the image-type stays always `Image` from [Images], at least the image-type as well as width/height you define in the original checkbox-sections are useless then! But there are 2 pointers to a solution:
  
  
  • Define the checkmark entries in [Images] as not scalable too (Checkmark = checkbox/unselected.png,1,,,,,,,,,0 and Checkmark.selected = checkbox/selected.png,1,,,,,,,,,0) - then an icon size change have never effect
  
  
  • Define own copies of the .png`s for the checkmark entries in [Images] - then the checkboxes appears unscalable by icon size on toolbars and dialogs, but scalable in menus like the other icons there (my favorite)
  
  The Radiobutton sections together with the `Bullet` entry in [Images] have the same problem, but here the radiobutton section is first called - also here I suggest to define an own/separate copy of the .png for the bullet-entry.


• Note 3: checkboxes and radiobuttons on toolbars or dialogs have always the text color from the toolbar skin/dialog skin behind it if defined (if not defined, the text color comes from the superior skin and so on - at the end you see the window text color from the OS). Concerns also text colors for state-sections like .hover, .selected, .pressed and so on. So you can have for instance on the mainbar: text colors for normal buttons from the `Mainbar button skin`, but different text colors for checkboxes/radiobuttons from the `Mainbar skin` (or text colors for all the things from the `Mainbar skin` if not defined in the `Mainbar button skin`). Or with other words: if you really like to have the same text colors for buttons and checkboxes/radiobuttons, you have to define the text colors in the `Mainbar skin` (also for state-sections) but not in the `Mainbar button skin`.

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Section types and states
Section entries
Defaults
Boxes | Images | Notation
Special sections Info, Options and Generic
Special headers
Fallback
General rules

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