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