[Stackoverflow] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] How to define a widget to be hidden in the design phase?

[Dominique]

Good afternoon,

I'm in a real messy situation here: I have a window, which contains a widget I would like to turn invisible. You might think "How easy, just add the <widget>.VISIBLE=TRUE line at the moment the widget is shown", but there's the catch: my application is an ununderstanble spaghetti of scope-defines, global variables (more than 200 of them), doing lots of things in background, ..., so I would simply like to do the following:

annoying_widget AT ROW 11.38 COL 52.86
      VIEW-AS TOGGLE-BOX HIDDEN
      SIZE 13 BY .77

But, obviously, this does not work, as HIDDEN is not a part of a VIEW-AS command. How can I achieve this at design-time?

Thanks in advance

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