>>First, thank you for your suggestions. I get it that I need to create a container control with three option buttons. This is fine.
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>>But I don't understand why there are 8 possibilities. How do you get the value of 7?
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>With three checkboxes, each of which can have one of two values, there are 2^3 different combinations (2 x 2 x 2). To assign a single numeric value to this, powers of two are often used - thus, one option has the value 1, the other 2, the other 4.
Funny thing is that you just answered the question I asked of Gregory in the other thread (the two threads are obviously related). Thank you.
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