>Bret,
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>>>I personally use only default option buttons, but that's me...
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>>I'll tell you what I'm doing. I realized that option buttons that have no caption have no visual cue when they get focus (same for check boxes). Also, the option group as a whole has no visual cue. I'm checking their captions, and replacing the empty ones with " ", and then setting the .Backstyle to 0 - Transparent (which is not the default) so there won't be a smudge under the seemingly empty label. The visual cue is a little odd - a sort of rectangle next to the button, but it's not bad. Sometimes labels work better than a control's own caption, and then I need things like this.
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>>If I need any other changes to default option button properties, I'll add them here. Mike's idea of adding a method is a good one, too.
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>I do the same as Nick. My cOptionGroup class has an Init() method:
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>* propogate container BackStyle to option buttons
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>with this
> .SetAll( "BackStyle", .BackStyle )
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> if ( ! .Enabled ) && 11-Oct-98 handle disabled initial state
> .Enable( .Enabled )
> endif
>endwith
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>Can I ask why you have no caption option buttons?

I have a group of option groups used to select from multiple related reports and send them to preview, print, etc. They are arranged like rows and columns. I use labels above the columns and to the left of the rows. Labels can also be handy if they make formatting easier. I use some long labels next to some check boxes because check box captions don't word wrap. I could probably have inserted a carriage return in the caption, but a label seemed easier. There may be any number of cases where a caption COULD be used, but I wanted, in principle, to ensure that all my option buttons and check boxes could be seen to get focus whether I deliberately included a caption in each instance or not.