There seems to be two types of Option Buttons in a form - one within an acOptionGroup another stand alone. The one in the acOptionGroup has no Validation Text while the other does.

Here is the situation. I have an extractiion engine that automatically extracts the Validation Text from objects in a selected form. When the engine attempts to extract Validation Text from the Option Button within an acOptionGroup, I of course get an error.

Is there any way of distinguishing between the two?

Thanks

Check the name of the Parent of the control. It'll either be the name of the form (for stand-alone) or the name of an option group.

Thanks for the solution. Works like a charm.

djsteele,

Sorry but I was a bit too hasty in my accepting the solution. On further testing I found that suggestion did not work. Your code is fine. I tested it as is in another form.

The extraction engine runs in a module called from another form. The code looks like this

For Each ActiveObject in ActiveForm

Select Case ActiveObject.ControlType
.
.
.
Case acOptionButton
Extract "StatusBarText"
Extract "ValidationText"
.
.
.
End Select

All other extractions work fine except the OptionButton which gives a run-time error 2455.

I tried trapping for that error. It traps on the first occurence of this error but not the next.

Any ideas?