How to Add Buttons to an OptionGroup Dynamically

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Step-by-Step Example

1. On the File menu, click New, and choose a new Class.
2. Create a new class called NewOption based on the OptionGroup class.
3. In the Class Designer, select and delete the second option button (Option2).
4. On the Class menu, click New Method, and create a new method called addbuttons.
5. From the Properties sheet, set the object to be the optiongroup NewOption, click the Methods tab, and double-click the addbuttons method.
6. Add the following code to the addbuttons method to take care of adding the buttons, renaming them, and positioning them horizontally:

      ** AddButtons Method
      PARAMETERS nButton_Number
      * This parameter is the total number of buttons for the option group
      Thisform.lockscreen=.T.
      This.ButtonCount = nButton_Number
      FOR i = 2 TO This.ButtonCount
           * Position it directly to the right of the previous one
           This.Buttons(i).Left = This.Buttons(i-1).Left +;
           This.Buttons(i-1).Width
   
           * Compute its caption
           length= LEN(This.Buttons(1).Caption)
           cStart_Title=left(This.Buttons(1).Caption, length-1)
           This.Buttons(i).Caption = cStart_Title + alltrim(Str(i))
           This.Buttons(i).Visible = .T.
           This.Buttons(i).Top = This.Buttons(1).Top
      NEXT i
      This.AutoSize=.T.
      Thisform.Lockscreen=.F.
   						

7. Close and save this class, and then add it to a form.
8. Place a command button (Command1) on the form, and put the following code in the button's Click event code:

      Thisform.NewOption1.addbuttons(4)
   						

9. Run the form, and click Command1. You will see that four buttons now exist, that they have been spaced out horizontally, and that their captions have been propagated from the first button.