Cascades Development

[lew]

Hi,

I've been trying to dynamically hide/unhide an ActionItem but the 'visible' property doesnot exist for ActionItem...only 'enable' exists which simply grays out the item. 

Has anyone been able to hide/unhide action items?

It's a common UI usage on older BB devices to only display meaninful context menus when you select an item in a list for example:

if currently selected item has an address, show the MAPS menu (action item)

but if no address exists, do not show the MAPS menu (action item) as it is useless

thanks,

[mgoulet]

Hi there,

Have you tried removingthe actionItem conditionally instead?

https://developer.blackberry.com/cascades/reference/bb__cascades__page.html#removeaction

Martin

[lew]

Haven't tested that one! Working on that now  

Any hint on how to use this in QML though?

[ekke]

removing / adding from QML doesnt work yet

ActionItems and Tabs don't have a property visible - only enable true/false

(and enable false only dimms the icon not the text)

there are Issues reported by me in IssueTracker - please vote

BBTEN-252 and BBTEN-251

[lew]

thanks! i've up-voted your feature request.

i will stick with enable/disable for the time being until this is resolved.

hope that a rim representative here pushes this feature for the next release!!!