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Grouping Objects

I am wondering if there is a way to group a bunch of objects, like labels or edit boxes, so that i can set them visible false or true in one statement not a whole bunch of statements. Please Help

Matvey

Well, I really doubt you can hide all of them with just one statement, however, you can make a TList of these objects, and set the properties in a FOR loop.

ZifNab

what you can do is make a descendant of a panel (or any other group component) which when set to invisible, automatically makes all his components invisible? What about it?

ZifNab

bozo7,

come to think of it, panel already supports this offcourse! What a stupid comment I've put above...
Put all the components in a panel and than make panel invisible. Otherwise if the components are scattered all over a form and can't be put in one panel... make a descendant of TList... (like matvey proposes)

Zif.

bozo7

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I should have clarified.
I also want to enable or disable a group of objects and have the glyphs on the buttons be the disabled glyph not the enabled glyph. When I use a toolbar or panel for this the buttons are disabled but don't show the disabled glyphs.
ZifNab I am rejecting your answer not because it is wrong but because my question was not clear. Sorry
bozo

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bozo7

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I had to move the SetControlsVisible and SetcontrolsEnabled to the Public section. Otherwise does exaclty what I was looking for.

I really enjoy this exchange of info

bozo