Set the Visible property of the controls to FALSE for the ones you may want hidden. Then in the INIT set Visible to true for the ones you need.

>I have a form, where there are certain controls I want to hide.
>My first attempt was to put the code in the Init event of the control e.g. If MyCondition
> Return .f.
>Endif
>
>This worked fine until I was using a form which , in the Init of the Form, did some processing on a file, and the results determined whether the control on the form was hidden or not.
>
>But the Init of the Form seems to be run AFTER the init of each object, so I cannot use this method.
>
>I would appreciate any other suggestions.
>
>regards,
>
>Gerard