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.

I tried this out, but was surprised to discover that it hides the
placeholder's separator, but not the placeholder's contents. I can work
around this by explicitly hiding each contained item as well as the
placeholder, but it sure feels like a misleading API.

John