Have you tried inheriting from the RadioButton, and overriding the OnPaint
method? (I'm sure there's somewhere a procedure to draw the ratiobutton's
circle, but I can't remember which or in which DLL). There's no backcolor
property for the circle, since it is drawn using this routine. You could
draw your own circle.
The other solution I can find is to draw a ratiobutton without any text, and
a Label that holds the text. OnClick of the label, you can change the value
of the ratiobutton to simulate the click on the ratiobutton's text, and you
can still "disable" the ratiobutton, so it gets drawn disabled.
Hope this helps.
VBen.

Strout,
Why not delete the radiobutton's Text property so it's blank, and add a
label control to the right of the radiobutton?

Regards,
Phil.