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[Tyleulen]

ProIV 5.5 with VIP

Is there a way to put a non-printing character into the Button Caption field of a Radio Group?

I would like to lay out 3 buttons next to each other on the same row, and label them at the top of the columns, but there doesn't seem to be a way to not have lables next to each individual button. The best I have managed is to use a . as the caption and then set the foreground color to the same as the background. This is not an ideal solution since ProIV still highlights this invisible label each time you click on a button. Is there some ascii code non-printing character I can use to have no caption?

[gdmjdkc]

ProIV 5.5 with VIP

Is there a way to put a non-printing character into the Button Caption field of a Radio Group?

Make the radio buttons 1 character wide to hide the label. Also uncheck the "show border" check box in the Radio properties tab. Use a box and surround the radio button and size the box so your top label will fit. If you don't want a box around the radio button, just use a label for your top label.

[gdmjdkc]

Okay, I didn't read your question correctly this morning, had not had enough coffee. :-

To place all of the buttons on one row try the following:

This does require you to put the buttons very close together. ProIV requires something in the label box for each button, I put in a hyphen, you could put in anything. Squeeze the buttons together until they hide the hypens. I created a 3 button set and adjusted the column width to 7 hiding the hyphens. Any wider hypens or whatever you put in the label box will show.

Hope this helps.

[Tyleulen]

Yeah, I did put the buttons close enough to cover up the captions. It just seems like their is no reason for these to be mandatory.