You can set Visible property of the controls to .F. in the form's init.

>Mark, thanks for your reply.
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>My problem is that I cannot use the Init of the object to set it to Invisible because I have to wait until the init of the Form, because I have a parameter coming in which determines whether the control will be visible or not.
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>Gerard
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>>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.
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>>>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
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>>>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.
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>>>I would appreciate any other suggestions.
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>>>regards,
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>>>Gerard