I have a form with an option group which is programmatically set-up at runtime in the .init event.
I want the focus to be set to an option which is also determined at run-time. If I setfocus() to the option button during the .init() event the form immediately becomes visible which seems inelegant to me.

Is there a better way in general of setting the control which is to receive initial focus at run-time? There are many examples of why you would want to do this, eg using the same form for adding a new record and editing an existing record. In the case of adding you would want the first user editable control (say a textbox) to be selected. In the case of editing you would want the OK button selected.

My best solution so far is to set a form property flag in the init method and call setfocus in the form's gotfocus. However doing this strangely disables menus which are run in the gotfocus (or activate) in modal forms; which won't worry many folk but my app does that a lot.