[development] JS gurus: please help me check checkboxes with a checkbox ; )

[Bertrand Mansion]

Angie Byron wrote:

>I was feeling all crappy all weekend so I took the opportunity to make some
>headway on Module Builder module. For those who don't know/remember, this is
>like a web-based script for auto-generating module source code. You check off
>the hooks you want to use, and it auto-generates some skeleton code for you so
>you don't have to go and look up function declarations. See
>http://drupal.org/node/55011 for more info.
>
>Anyway!
>
>The next big thing I'd like to do is allow for the definition of "groups" of
>hooks. Check here for a nice, pretty mock-up that Jeff Robbins put together:
>http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/drupal/contributions/sandbox/webchick/
>module_builder/modulemaker.graffle.pdf
>
>So when I check "custom node type," the script should automatically go and
check
>off hook_node_info, hook_insert, hook_update, hook_load, etc.
>
>Could someone show me a _BASIC_ example of how to do something like this, with
>just static HTML checkboxes and an onclick handler on one of them? I've had a
>really hard time trying to narrow down search terms for an example; most of the
>JS checkbox examples I've found seem to be written at the "Duh. What is a
>checkbox?" level. :\

Here might be a useful example:
http://www.mattkruse.com/javascript/checkboxgroup/index.html

Here are my search results:
http://www.google.com/search?q=javascript%20checkbox%20groups%20checked&sourceid
=mozilla2&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Good luck,

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