Radio buttons that don't look like radio buttons

[David Glasgow]

Revolutionaries,

I have several cards containing many radio buttons, and want to have  
a summary screen which consists of an array of colour indicators  
reflecting the status of the scattered radio buttons.  I remembered  
that many years ago I made some radio buttons that didn't look like  
radio buttons (they were intended to function and look a bit like the  
pop up - down mechanical buttons on old cassette recorders). So I set  
out the summary card with radio buttons which are set and reset by  
user actions on corresponding groups on the relevant card.  That  
works fine.  A brief script built around

set the hilitedbutton of  SummaryGroupOnCard1  to the hilitedbutton  
of the owner of the target

does the trick.

However, the summary display can't look like radio buttons in the  
final product, because users will quite reasonably expect to be able  
to click on them.  I planned to change the properties of the summary  
buttons after I had finished laying out and scripting the cards the  
users will actually interact with.

When the time came, I started to set and tweak properties and colours  
of the buttons on the summary card, but couldn't get the simple plain  
colour patch which switches on or off mutually exclusively with its  
fellow group members.

After maybe an hour of futile clicking, I set out to find the buttons  
I made years ago, and to my amazement succeeded.  However, I *still*  
can't find out how I made the radio buttons not have the little radio  
button blob in the middle.  There is no scripting involved, and no  
icons.   They do have hilited text and fill colours that match - if  
they don't, a little dot appears when selected, like old Win radio  
buttons (I am on OS X).   Selection is only indicated by a change in  
the border.  However, even though I have matched as many properties  
and colours as I can find, my new radio buttons insist on having the  
radio button blob.

I know I could just copy the little group I have, and use them, but  
this is really bugging me.  Was I quite clever years ago, or am I  
being quite dumb now?

David Glasgow