>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.
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>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.

How about setting the tab order for all other controls to something higher (maybe you can do that in design mode), and have the optiongroup have taborder=1? That should give it the focus without any extra action.