Simple equivalent to display: none?

Moises Chicharro mo.chicharro at Oracle.com
Wed Jul 22 12:50:09 UTC 2015


Is this what you need?

public final void setManaged(boolean value)

Property description:
Defines whether or not this node's layout will be managed by it's parent.


> On 22 Jul 2015, at 13:33, Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net> wrote:
> 
> One common layout task that seems harder than necessary in JavaFX is to
> temporarily remove a node from the scene graph, without having to actually
> mess about with the parent container. In HTML you can do use #foo {
> display: none; } to hide something temporarily. In JFX you have to remove
> from the parent container's child nodes list, and then remember where it
> was so it can be put back later.
> 
> The visible property is nearly good enough except that it doesn't affect
> layout. Setting both visible and managed to false can sometimes work but
> seems indirect.
> 
> Is there any appetite for a boolean display property that makes layout
> managers ignore/skip the child and also makes it invisible?



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