On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 14:37:17 -0800, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:

On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 12:05:59 -0500, Big_Al wrote:


What does Toggle it mean?

Toggle, in the case of a check box or radio box, change the state it was in. If it's on turn it off, if it's off turn
it on.

To switch between one of two states.
In your case the auto login is not turned on. I don't care or know if that is with or without the check box checked.
In your case the feature is off, so changing the state of that checkbox will change the state of your autologin. If
it's currently off, it will turn it on.

SO TOGGLE IT to the other state it's currently in.

I had an adventure with that word when the DirecTV installer came.

He told me the channel and volume were toggles, so I tried to press them
in so as to change their state (which didn't make sense, since both deal
with a series of values!).

It turned out he meant that you rock them up or down, not push them in.

He thought I was pretty dumb even after I told him what toggle means to
me (same as you wrote above).

BTW, both switches are quite small and don't have long bat handles, so
it's not obvious at a glance that they rock rather than press in.

Not to mention that what I did at first actually had an effect, but it
wasn't consistent - i.e., sometimes volume up, sometimes volume down,
and of course the same for the channel button.

This reminds me of the old days when the Rural Electrification
Administration installed electric power lines in the area where our
ranch was located. Our house had been set up with a wind charger and a
battery system. The ceiling lights had pull chains on them, but when
our house was re-wired for 110 volt REA power they put "Toggle
Switches" on the walls by the doors and got rid of all those pull
chain light fixtures. Long time ago!!! Gordon