enabled locked property option group and buttons in group confusion

[brian]

I have a form with an option group containing 10 toggle buttons. I am
struggling with understanding the relationship between enabling and
locking the option group and enabling and locking the individual
buttons in the group. How do they relate to eachother? Is it
hierarchial, do button settings override group settings? Can someone
sort this out for me please?

Thanks, Brian

 

[John W. Vinson]

I have a form with an option group containing 10 toggle buttons. I am
struggling with understanding the relationship between enabling and
locking the option group and enabling and locking the individual
buttons in the group. How do they relate to eachother? Is it
hierarchial, do button settings override group settings? Can someone
sort this out for me please?

An Option Group has just one value - the numeric value corresponding to the
selected button. The buttons aren't directly connected to the data in the
table at all. It's sort of pointless (IMO) to enable or disable individual
buttons in the option group - all that would do is restrict which values might
end up getting selected for the Option Group control itself.

Locking the option group simply blocks the user from changing the value in the
table. They can see which option is already there, just not change it.

John W. Vinson [MVP]