GroupStart Property

Gets or sets whether this control is the start of a group of controls.

object.GroupStart = [boolean]

Where object is an object expression that evaluates to one of the controls in the Applies To list, and boolean is a boolean expression that evaluates to either True or False, as described in Settings.

Client support

Newlook Smartclient

Newlook Server

Use

The GroupStart property is used to identify the start of a mutually exclusive group of option buttons. Any subsequent controls with the GroupStart property set to False belong to the same group (the order of controls is dictated by their Tab Order). The group continues until another option button with a GroupStart property set to True is found (intervening controls do not affect this grouping), or the end of the control collection is reached.

This property is used to control the behavior of option buttons at runtime. Only one option button within a group can be selected at any time. In addition, when tabbing through controls at runtime, the focus will be given to the currently checked item in the option button group (which may or may not be the first item), then arrow keys can be used to move between option buttons in the same group. If there is no selected item in the group, tabbing will set focus to the first control in the group.

When the Newlook recognition engine generates a group of option buttons from a host field, it will automatically set the GroupStart property of the first option to True, and the remaining options will be set to False. If you are inserting new option buttons on your form, this property will need to be set manually.

Settings

The GroupStartsettings for the option button control are :

Setting	Description
True	This control is the start of a group of related option buttons.
False	(Default for inserted controls) This control is not the start of a group.

Applies To

Option button control

GroupStart Property

Client support

Use

Settings

See Also

Applies To