We've never had a problem with getting the property for visible. We have our own libraries to do grid arranging, which requires figuring out which columns are on/off when user saves the config. It hasn't failed us yet (and I'm pretty sure it was implemented in PB5 originally).

Show us your code Roland. Maybe someone can see what's wrong.

Also, which version of PB?

i always use evaluate in case there is an expression on an attribute such as visible.  emailed you a function so you can quickly check to see if it fixes it for you

We do something very similar and haven't had any problems, just like Brad says. Beware that you have to set the column's visibility, which will automatically make the header invisible too (though if I remember well we set both), but still ... check the column. Like Mike says: beware of any expressions in the visibility attributes.

regards.

I figured out the problem.

I coded my object to work with DataWindow and DataStore objects. To do that, when passing a DataWindow I was setting the DW instance variable to the passed argument and then doing a ShareData to the DS instance variable. All functionality after that works exclusively with the DS.

That is why I was only getting original property values.

I added code to copy the visible property from the DW to the DS and now it works as expected.

Thanks for the suggestions.