>>In pursuing a thread last week about being able to hide pages in a pageframe, I encountered, for the first time, a CommandGroup.
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>>What's the common usage for a CommandGroup, anyway? At first glance, it seems like a container with commandbuttons inside, with the following differences:
>>1) It has a value ( 1 to N)
>>2) And a controlsource
>>3) The "currently selected" commandbutton has its background color sort of dithered out so that you can tell its been selected.
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>>Are there any other differences of note?
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>A commandgroup is one of those things that seemed like a good idea at the time. I think it's in VFP for two reasons:
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>1) to aid in conversion from FP2.x. Every button in an FP2.x screen turns into a commandgroup in a form.
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>2) because VB had them. And that's because VB didn't have inheritance.
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>Bottom line. I've never found a reason to use a commandgroup rather than simply putting buttons in a container.
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>Tamar

I agree with Tamar.