Hi Peer,

re:
> Showing the top-level parent group causes everything in that group to get shown, which is not what I want.

Right, but that's not the complete operation, after everything is shown you can then set what you want hidden to obj.hidden = true; without needing to do any climbing up group parent trees.


> Two things that caused some trouble are:
>
> Setting hidden = true on a non-group object fails to set hidden = true on sub-objects
> .getSubObjects() operates recursively rather than just giving immediate children

There isn't really any way to change this behavior without potentially breaking already existing scripts.

But if you want to get only the immediate children of a group, there is an .objects property on a group that will give that.

- Michael

Hi Michael,

Thanks for reiterating that the way to do this is by showing everything and then hiding the stuff I want hidden. It took me a little while, but now I think I see what you meant and why this isn't built into setting hidden = false.

Good to know about the .objects property, though like you were hinting, I didn't end up needing it.

- Peer