[AccessD] Data-driven option buttons

Hi Arthur,

If the answers have a fair amount of text, perhaps you could put them into
text boxes where each text box is in a single record in a continuous form,
and your question is placed in the header portion of the form.  The user
could just click on the answer.  The text box could be raised to simulate a
button. 

This avoids the 'how many answers' issue. 

I haven't done this, but it might be cool . . .

Good Luck!
Dan Waters

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Subject: [AccessD] Data-driven option buttons

I think that I have asked this question before, but I can't find anything in
my emails that pertains, so...

Assume that a table T1 has several columns C1...C5, containing text, and
another column containing an integer. (Let's sidestep the normalization
issue, I am aware of that and trying to keep the example simple.) Here is
the scenario:

There is a Question column in T1, containing the text of a question to ask
the user. The columns C1..C5 contain text representing possible answers to
the question, from which the user can select exactly one answer. The integer
column stores the number of the answer selected.

For example:

Q: On a scale of 1 to 5, do you consider yourself:
a) a Genius
b) quite smart but not a genius
c) about average
d) slower than most people I know
e) smarter than a cucumber but it's close

I would like the interface to present the question and then list its
possible answers in the form of a set of option buttons, whose After-Update
event will record the number of the option selected. This means that I must
a) determine the number of possible answers; b) create that many option
buttons (or alternatively create a maximum number and hide the irrelevant
ones); and c) populate the labels for the buttons with the text stored in
columns C1...C5.

I can't figure out a cool way to do this. Any ideas, friends?

TIA,
Arthur