Adobe Scripting/Presence Property

I am trying to use the "Hidden" property and it wont exclude the layout like I seem in the adobe examples, by "deleting and removing the space the object takes up. Any ideas why this isn't working?

I tried that, and wasn't able to do it.
This is an example of what I want to do, I have actually downloaded this form, and works great. But when I do it in my form or even a brand new form for testing, it wont work correctly.
Any other Ideas?
Thanks

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You should ask such questions over at AEnhancers. I had a quick look at your code but could not find anything obvious, so it may relate to where and when you execute certain functions and how they are nested, I just don't have the time to do a deeper study.
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"ajrobson" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:etn9j1$op2$[email protected]..
>I have a script that get a list of choosen check boxes,
it was working fine
>but
> now when i press the button that calls the script i get
a error saying
> "script
> error property not found" then it lists the line i have
put a * next to
> and
> says #hilite
>
> This is the top part of that script and to my knowlegde
i have not chnaged
> any
> of it and it worked before but now it does not, i also
use a script almost
> identical to this but use it for radiobuttons instead
and the line is the
> same
> in that and that script works, can anybody tell me what
as gone wrong?
>
>
>
> global err
>
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