Mutually exclusive checkboxe or how to change the option button icon

[marc.meg]

Hi,
I am creating a form with several sections in which the user must select an answer that is mutually exclusive (e.g. male/female).
I would like to use check boxes because the graphics are more intuitive if the form is printed.
So I would need one of two solutions:

• a macro that allows me to do this
• or a way to change the icon of the option button to that of the check box.
  Thanks!
  Marc

[Wanderer]

Search for radio-button here and you may find you have to put the mutual exclusive buttons in a group, so LibreOffice knows wich buttons to switch.

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[Lupp]

Simply don’t do it.
By now, most people are used to expecting the little black buttons in a group with exclusive choices, and to assuming that several of the listed options can be selected (enabled) or deselected (disabled) in groups that contain square controls which are either empty or show a checkmark.
( I would even suppose this to be one of the few globally accepted standards we have.)
Don’t start to spoil such a standard.

BTW: As far as I understand, Draw isn’t the appropriate module of “office software” for designing any kind of forms. If there are serious reasons to do it this way in your case, I would be interested to know them.
An example for what I would prefer:
ask106453ExampleAdvisingAgainstFormsInDraw.ods (601.8 KB)