>Can anyone tell me whether it's possible to 'hide' a control on a form so that it is not counted in a control count? This issue has arisen because a query I'm working with tries to use all of the controls on the form in its count and display, and I have several at the top which are for read only purposes (and from another table besides).
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>Thanks for your help.
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>Sylvia

You can always count this number of controls. Following is simplified example (it should be extended for container controls):

local nNotReadonlyCount
nNotReadonlyCount=0
for n=1 to thisform.controlcount
	if type("thisform.controls(n).readonly")="L"
		if thisform.controls(n).readonly=.f.
			nNotReadonlyCount=nNotReadonlyCount+1
		endif
	endif
endfor
=messagebox("Total Controls Counted: "+str(nNotReadonlyCount))