I came here looking for a solution to the problem indicated in the November
2005 thread, "boxes in checkbox set sometimes do not show up", to wit: "in
one layout I get my list of names with boxes next to them, in my other
layout the boxes are simply not there. When I select an item from the set
of the moody layout field, I see the box highlight momentarily, but then it
disappears".

The original poster followed up with, "it wasn't the pen width ... but the
style button, apparently the boxes were just hidden in the background".

I hunted all around for the "style button" but saw nothing relevant, and my
field was out in the open with nothing to hide behind. Finally I messed
around with the Style menu applied to text formatting. I noticed that
although the field's choices (just yes and no in this case) were left
aligned on the screen, the text formatting menus indicated they were
centered.

When I made the field left justified, the radio buttons appeared.

I thought I had found the solution, but when I created a new field to test
it, the new field did not respond the same. It was indicated as centered
yet when when changed to left, the boxes or buttons are missing.

If anyone wants to see it I have a sample (FM9, two records, two fields,
155 KB) posted at http://web.me.com/tlmurray/filechute/FM_Fields.fp7

Tim Murray wrote:
First, the field you're having a problem with is defined as "Type",
which is set to validate for the "Type" value list (values = A,B,C,D)
The radio buttons didn't show because the pen color was set to white.
Once I set it to black, the radio buttons appeared.

Vandar wrote:
This is very weird. The problem field is defined as "Flag", which is
validated against the Yes/No value list. And the pen color is black.

I swear this is true, and I downloaded the file from the server. You *are*
talking about the bottom field, correct? Because the top one is Type (but
black pen).

Tim Murray wrote:

My mistake. The bottom field is defined as "Flag". I got the radio
buttons to appear by changing the "line color" to black.
(I'm using v11 Adv)