>I have a workaround provided by Craig Boyd at SPS. Leave the default buttoncount at 0 and put this in the group init.
>

>try
>	for each loButton in this.buttons
>		loButton.init()
>	next
>catch to loException
>endtry
>

Now in any other situation I'd recommend against this, because what if in the next version it started working and then all these init()s get to be called twice...

>Sure seems to me like MS just didn't finish the job on this one.

...but it's not that we'll get a new version, and this one may never get fixed. So we can soon declare VFP9 complete ;).

And it's not that MS didn't finish the job - they did. Part of that job was to dismantle VFP team, regardless of how far they got finishing theirs.