Hiding and Showing Objects (XForms (Forms Library) - Version 1.2 (Rev. 4) A Graphical User Interface Toolkit for X)

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### 10.12 Hiding and Showing Objects

Sometimes it is useful to temporarily hide some objects in your form, in particular when you have sets of overlapping objects. To this end, select the objects you want to hide and press `<F6>`. The objects (though still selected) are now invisible. To show them again press `<F5>`. A problem might occur here: when you press `<F5>` only the selected objects will be shown again. But once an object is invisible it can no longer be selected. Fortunately, you can always use `<F4>` to select all objects, including the invisible ones, and then press `<F5>`. A possibly better way is to first group the objects before hiding them. Now you can select them by pressing the mouse on the group name in the group browser and then ’unhide’ them.