# Checkbox Alignment, Justification

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There are two parts to a checkbox control (the text label and the checkbox itself), and six ways to arrange them, as shown here (from the sample program [TSTCBZ in EXLIB:\[908,41\]](https://bitbucket.org/microsabio/exlib/src/master/908041/tstcbz.bp)).

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**AUI\_CONTROL Calls**

The checkboxes in the upper group were created with these AUI\_CONTROL calls:

xcall AUI, AUI\_CONTROL, OPCODE, ID(1), "Left Text; Left Justify",  MBST\_ENABLE, MBF\_CHKBOX + MBF\_LFTEXT + MBF\_LFJUST, CMD\$, CB1,  STATUS, 2, 2, 2, 24, 67, -2,  0, 0, "",  "", GRPID1

xcall AUI, AUI\_CONTROL, OPCODE, ID(2), "Left Text; Right Justify",  MBST\_ENABLE, MBF\_CHKBOX + MBF\_LFTEXT + MBF\_RTJUST, CMD\$, CB2,  STATUS, 3, 2, 3, 24, 67, -2,  0, 0, "",  "", GRPID1

xcall AUI, AUI\_CONTROL, OPCODE, ID(3), "Right Text; Left Justify",  MBST\_ENABLE, MBF\_CHKBOX + MBF\_LFJUST, CMD\$, CB3,  STATUS, 5, 2, 5, 24, 67, -2,  0, 0, "",  "", GRPID1

xcall AUI, AUI\_CONTROL, OPCODE, ID(4), "Right Text; Right Justify",  MBST\_ENABLE, MBF\_CHKBOX + MBF\_RTJUST, CMD\$, CB4,  STATUS, 6, 2, 6, 24, 67, -2,  0, 0, "",  "", GRPID1

xcall AUI, AUI\_CONTROL, OPCODE, ID(5), "Left Text; Center Justify",  MBST\_ENABLE, MBF\_CHKBOX + MBF\_LFTEXT, CMD\$, CB5,  STATUS, 8, 2, 8, 24, 67, -2,  0, 0, "",  "", GRPID1

xcall AUI, AUI\_CONTROL, OPCODE, ID(6), "Right Text; Center Justify",  MBST\_ENABLE, MBF\_CHKBOX, CMD\$, CB6,  STATUS, 9, 2, 9, 24, 67, -2,  0, 0, "",  "", GRPID1



**INFLD Calls**

The checkboxes in the lower group were created with INFLD, which only supports four of the six possible alignments:

xcall INFLD, 2, 2, 23, 0, "||c", CB\$(1), INXCTL, GRPID2+1, 2, EXITCODE, 0, 0, -1, -1, -1, "Left Text; Left Justify"

xcall INFLD, 3, 2, 23, 0, "||c|J", CB\$(2), INXCTL, GRPID2+1, 2, EXITCODE, 0, 0, -1, -1, -1, "Left Text; Right Justify"

xcall INFLD, 5, 2, 23, 0, "||cR", CB\$(1), INXCTL, GRPID2+1, 2, EXITCODE, 0, 0, -1, -1, -1, "Right Text; Left Justify"

xcall INFLD, 6, 2, 23, 0, "||cR|J", CB\$(2), INXCTL, GRPID2+1, 2, EXITCODE, 0, 0, -1, -1, -1, "Right Text; Right Justify"

_type_ code legend: **||c** is for checkbox; **R** reverses the normal alignment (putting the checkbox on the left and the text on the right), and **|J** right justifies the text. **|J** is the same as setting SBR=INFLDCBRJ but has the advantage of being easy to change from one field to the next.

INFLD uses the _setdef_ parameter for specifying the text associated with checkboxes.