I understand that. Set the visible property of these controls to FALSE now at design time, not at runtime. This is done on the Property sheet for the controls, not in the INIT. When your form receives the parameter in the FORM INIT, then instead of trying to hide controls based on the INIT parameter, you will un-hinde [set the VISIBLE property to TRUE] the controls based on the parameter. Just reverse your process.

>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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>>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.