Hide the CheckBox

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Is there a tech note on how to use the community forum? Can't post in other sections. Just trying to post here it keeps loading more posts as you have to go to the bottom to find the post form and it keeps moving. ??? Why is it at the bottom? 
 Just looking for a way to hide the CheckBox Control wizard used in InTocuh. In WindowMaker it has a check box for the Visible property but no way to animate it. Is there no way to change the setting outside of WindowMaker? 
 In WindowMaker there is a button with Visibility covering it and it is covering it on WIndowMaker but once you open the screen in WindowView the ChaeckBox is ontop of the button. 
 They are now on 2020 R2 but I guess the button used to cover them.

Richard Köhlerstrand · Answer

Hi Richard , 
 The CheckBox Control wizard is quite limited in the possibilities as compared to content created in Industrial Graphics. 
 But to solve your issue you could use the SetProperty"X" function 
 The following will hide your control in a script: 
 SetPropertyD ( "CheckBox_1.Visible", 0); 
 and to show it : 
 SetPropertyD ( "CheckBox_1.Visible", 1); 
 Keep in mind that the control has to be loaded for the script to function, if not, it will generate result code -5 and an error in log:

(From the helpfile) 
 Getting or Setting Properties Properties are accessible through the GetPropertyX() function, where X is the data type (D for Discrete, I for Integer, and M for Message). For example: 
 GetPropertyM(ControlName.Property, MsgTag) 
 For more information on the GetPropertyX() functions, see Built-In Functions. 
 When you run the script that includes the GetPropertyX() function, the property value is saved to the MsgTag. If multiple rows are selected, the property assigned to MsgTag is the tag value in the first row of the multiple selection. 
 SetPropertyD() Function Sets a discrete property in a wizard and returns a success code. 
 Syntax 
 result = SetPropertyD(controlname.property, Boolean) 
 Parameters 
 controlname 
 The name of a wizard that supports properties. A literal string value, message tagname, or string expression. 
 property 
 The discrete property of the wizard that is to be set. Together with controlname can be a literal string value, message tagname, or string expression. 
 Boolean 
 The Boolean value to pass to the wizard property. A literal Boolean value, discrete tagname or Boolean expression. 
 Return Value 
 An integer error code. For more information about the error codes, see Understanding Windows Controls Error Messages. 
 Example(s) 
 With a check box wizard Checkbox1 and a discrete tagname dtag you can control the visibility of the check box with the following script function: 
 result=SetPropertyD("Checkbox1.visible",dtag);