Hiding some elements on the Preferences... dialog sheets SOLVED

[zarkogajic]

Hi support,

I can handle the "e.beginPropDialog" and remove a page from the Preferences dialog (using IUIX_PropSheets's RemovePage).

What If I want to hide some elements of a specific page, say "DlgAppPrefs.General". I want to hide the "Tabs and Windows" group:

I cannot find a method in IUIX_PropSheets or IUIX_PropSheetPage to do something like that.

I can actually hide this group by hiding each element in my custom IUIX_EventMonitor by using IUIX_Dialog.ShowItem() - where I get item names from the DlgTemplates.xml (from Resources.dat).

When I do that the property sheet page looks like:

Any chance to do the same *without* the need to use IUIX_EventMonitor and also not to have the empty space due to removal of elements?

[Sasha - Tracker Dev Team]

Hello zarkogajic,

The usage of the event monitor is the only way of doing this. Also, you can manually move the needed items up if needed by using the Rect property of the needed IUIX_Obj. For this you will need to get the delta and cycle through all of the dialog's objects and do get_Rect, modify by delta, put_Rect.


Cheers,
Alex

[zarkogajic]

Hi Alex,

Thanks, exactly what I though.

Further, it seems that "InstUI.CurrentThreadCtx.RegisterEventMonitor(myMonitor)" cannot be called when handling "e.beginPropDialog" as the dialog is already being displayed - so registering myMonitor (for "DlgAppPrefs.General") at that time is too late.

So, I need to have my monitor running all the time.

Correct?

-ž

[Sasha - Tracker Dev Team]

Hello zarkogajic,

The monitor should be up the entire time, listening to the needed events.

Cheers,
Alex

[zarkogajic]

Hi Alex,

ok, thanks

ž

[Sasha - Tracker Dev Team]

[zarkogajic]

Alex,

Just a small addition here.

The event monitor (in this case) does not need to run all the time.

If I custom handle (UIX_CmdNotify_Exec) the "cmd.prefs" command then I can register the even monitor before command execution and unregister afterwards.

-žarko

[Sasha - Tracker Dev Team]

Hello žarko,

Well that would be optimal if it works for you.

Cheers,
Alex