Hiding an Object on a form?

[Graham Wickens]

On my Form "Logging_Dupl_Lookup2" I have a button called "Search_Button", on this instance I want to hid this button. How is it done?, or do I have to create a new form without "Search_Button"?

frm = form.viewqueried("Logging_Dupl_lookup2",query.filter,query.order,"dialog","center","center")

tried the following:

:Logging_Dupl_Lookup2:Search_button.object.visible = .f.

:Logging_Dupl_Lookup2:Search_button.hide()

frm:Search_button.object.visible = .f.

frm:Search_button.hide()

.. do stuff ...
frm.close()
but none work!
thx

[armasoft]

Try

topparent:Search_Button.hide()

[Graham Wickens]

no, that doesnt work either.

[Tom Cone Jr]

Graham, where is your code running? If you're trying to change the dialog form after it's opened I think you're too late, if your code is running in the form which "called" the dialog form in the first place. I think the dialog form has focus, and your code may not even be running til the dialog form closes.

You might try setting a global var and then use the global var in the OnInit event of the called form to let the called form itself hide the field.

[Ronald Anusiewicz]

Maybe this will work, From the help file:

Description

The FORM.LOAD() method loads Form_Name into memory and returns an object pointer. The form window is hidden. To display the window, you must use the <FORM>.SHOW() method. Use the FORM.LOAD() method rather than the FORM.VIEW() or FORM.VIEWQUERIED() methods when you want to manipulate objects on the form, or set form properties, before making the form window visible.

Supported By
Alpha Five Version 5 and Above
Limitations

Desktop applications only.

<FORM> as P = FORM.LOAD( Form_Name as C [, Style as C [, Window_Name as C [, Horizontal_Position as N [, Vertical_Position as N ]]]] )

Examples

This script loads the Customer form into memory. It then sets the form's filter and order properties and then shows the form.

dim frm as P frm = Form.load("customer") frm:Tables:customer.filter_expression = "State_prov = 'MA' " frm:Tables:customer.order_expression = "Company" frm:Tables:customer.query() frm:Search_button.hide() frm.show() frm.activate()

[Graham Wickens]

ok,
so Presumably I have to FORM.LOAD said form, rather than FORM.VIEWQUERIED
hide button
then FORM.VIEW

is that correct?

[Al Buchholz]

Conditional object

[Graham Wickens]

Thanks All,
got it working now with following code

frm = form.Load("Logging_Dupl_lookup2")
:Logging_Dupl_Lookup2:Tables:Logging.filter_expression = query.filter
:Logging_Dupl_Lookup2:Tables:Logging.Order_expression = query.order
frm:Search_button.hide()
frm.Show()

[Ted Giles]

That's a long winded way of doing it.
As Al said, Conditional Object is by far the easiest way to hide/show stuff.
You can stack the items to be shown almost indefinitely and trigger them based on lots of other conditions.
Mike Wilson - of this Parish - used them with user selection options based on check boxes.
Only the checked items selected would be displayed on a form, and there were loads of options.

I hate coding just for the sake of it and as AA is a low/no code system, I try and use what they gave me first. The AA platform developers thought of most situations. You may not have found them all yet.

Same with my Web Kit. I try and use what's been built in by people more clever than me. I have enough wheels now.