>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 will not "hide" the control - it will make it dissapear completely, or rather, it will make that the control doesn't appear.
>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.
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>But the Init of the Form seems to be run AFTER the init of each object, so I cannot use this method.
That is correct. You can make the object invisible (change the .Visible) property) from Form.Init().
HTH, Hilmar.
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