Creating a type of toggle with two labels..

[Jonathan Giles]

It is likely significantly easier to simply roll your own control and
not try to coerce ButtonBase to support two labels.

For what it is worth, Paru and I talked about precisely this control at
JavaOne 2012, which you can watch on YouTube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryUTSrGGnvo&list=PLKCk3OyNwIzvw-zzCMJ3xq5SgxL961IFE&index=38

-- Jonathan

On 5/12/2013 10:16 a.m., Pedro Duque Vieira wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to create a new control to be used by other developers. It is
> know as "Toggle Switch".
> You can see this control in android:
> http://ankri.de/switch-button-for-android-2-3-gingerbread/ in iOS:
> http://iosguides.net/ios-menus-comparison/ (search for "Toggle Switch") and
> on Windows 8:
> http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/83f858/manage-the-windows-8-sync-feature/
> (below
> "Step 2").
>
> My approach was to subclass ButtonBase which is itself a subclass of
> Labeled. The problem here is that Labeled only accepts one label but the
> Toggle Switch needs two: one for the "on" state and another for the "off".
>
> Any ideas on how to best approach this problem?
>
> Thanks in advance, regards,
>