Back in the dawn of time, I created a class containing the label and the textbox. I keyed off of in-app security and if someone was not supposed to see these textboxes, a simple Setall('cls_lbltxt', 'visible', .f.) sufficed.

>Hi,
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>I am wondering how others deal with the following situation. Here is how I do:
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>I have a form where some customers need to see a row of controls (three labels and three textboxs). Other customer do not need to see or use them.
>I place these controls on the form and set the Visible of all to .T.
>At run time, when the form is initialized - based on some setting that calls for these controls not be be used - the code sets the property Visible of all controls to .F. Then, there is a LOOP through all controls and the TOP value is decreased by 26 (the space for these controls).
>This works. But I wonder how others would do it.
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>TIA