Hi Marcia

>Won't the controls go away as soon as I make the count 0 ?
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>In the class they will. But when you drop an instance of the class on a form, you will set the ButtonCount to some value greater than zero and then - voila - you will have option buttons.

I guess I have some misunderstanding here. The class is already instantiated on the form, I am renaming in the form (instantiated opg / opt).