IsVisible Property
Applies To
ActiveX control, Bound Object Frame control, Chart control, Check Box control, Combo Box control, Command Button control, Image control, Label control, Line control, List Box control, Option Button control, Option Group control, Page, Page Break control, Rectangle control, Subform/Subreport control, Tab control, Text Box control, Toggle Button control, Unbound Object Frame control.
Description
You can use the IsVisible property in Visual Basic to determine whether a control on a report is visible.
Setting
The IsVisible property uses the following settings.
Setting | Description |
|
True (–1) | (Default) The control is visible. |
False (0) | The control isn't visible. |
You can set the IsVisible property only in the Print event of a report section that contains the control.
Remarks
You can use the IsVisible property together with the HideDuplicates property to determine when a control on a report is visible and show or hide other controls as a result. For example, you could hide a line control when a text box control is hidden because it contains duplicate values.
See Also
HideDuplicates property.
Example
The following example uses the IsVisible property of a text box to control the display of a line control on a report. The report is based on a Products table and uses three controls with the following properties.
Properties | Line control | Text box #1 | Text box #2 |
|
Name | Line0 | CategoryID | ProductName |
ControlSource | | CategoryID | ProductName |
HideDuplicates | | Yes | No |
Left | 0 | 0 | 2.0 |
Top | 0 | .1 | .1 |
Width | 4.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Paste the following code into the Declarations section of the report module, and then view the report to see the line formatting controlled by the IsVisible property:
Private Sub Detail_Print(Cancel As Integer, PrintCount As Integer)
If Me!CategoryID.IsVisible Then
Me!Line0.Visible = True
Else
Me!Line0.Visible = False
End If
End Sub