What's the word for "Enable/Disable"?

naming-conventions terminology
Led picture Led · Mar 30, 2010 · Viewed 24.5k times · Source

When I want to comment code about control Enable/Disable and when I want to discuss with people about the control Enable/Disable, I really hope there is actually a word to it instead of typing or saying "Enable/Disable".

Currently I use the word EnDisable, what is the real word of it?

Answer

Yacoby picture Yacoby · Mar 30, 2010

I would suggest using "toggle" as although it doesn't exactly mean Enable/Disable it is commonly used as such in the context of user interfaces (as @Pekka mentioned).

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