Re: Hiding a placeholder's separator

["John Sullivan" <sullivan eazel com>]

on 11/16/00 2:42 AM, Michael Meeks at michael helixcode com wrote:

> 
> Hi John,
> 
> On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, John Sullivan wrote:
>> I just discovered that setting the state of all menu items in a
>> placeholder (well, their commands, technically) to "hidden" does not
>> hide the initial separator supplied by the placeholder.
> 
> I've just committed a patch to add the hidden attribute on the
> placeholder itself.
> 
>> If the placeholder contains no items, then the separator isn't drawn,
>> but if the placeholder contains only hidden items, then the separator
>> is drawn. Am I right in assuming this is a bug that should be fixed in
>> Bonobo?
> 
> Well; the problem is that this gets rather expensive /
> complicated. Currently the placeholder has a rather dumb heuristic for
> determining whether to show its separator: whether there are any XML
> elements inside itself; this means that in some situations you will get a
> separator when you possibly don't want one. If you have an extremely
> complicated dynamic situation, I suggest that you use a non-delimted
> placeholder and insert any separators manualy.

OK, I would rather that Bonobo could be a little smarter about this to make
things just work right for applications, but I can use the workarounds you
suggest for now (using "hidden" on the placeholder itself will be handy).

Thanks,

John