>>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 textboxes). 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
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>If you're using the ANCHOR property on the controls, you should probably temporarily set it to 0 before move/resize, then restore the original value afterwards.
Good point. I do that already with another set of controls that may or may not be used by the customer.
Thank you.
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