Hide Actual Tab

skearney · April 10, 2019, 7:46pm

I am trying to hide a tab and everything that is on it. So far, only the stuff on the tab is hiding and it is leaving the actual tab…

Sales is the name of the tab.

Sales.Visible = false;

hkeric.wci · April 10, 2019, 7:54pm

I use for a child tab something like this:

// In _Load
revPanel.baseDockManager.PaneFromKey("DataTagPanel").Close();

// Helper Method
private Erp.UI.App.PartTracker.Panels.PartRev.PartRevPanel revPanel {
	get {
		return (Erp.UI.App.PartTracker.Panels.PartRev.PartRevPanel)csm.GetNativeControlReference("9d473ae1-1718-41ac-9643-c4828a09a0a2");
	}
}

Hogardy · April 10, 2019, 8:05pm

If it is the right name, maybe hide it’s container.? Maybe you hid the wrong panel from the left side list of panels?

Can you hide /unhide not via code but by selecting it and change the visible property?

Pierre

skearney · April 10, 2019, 8:47pm

I changed it to this and it is still not hiding the actual tab:

			Ice.Lib.Framework.EpiDockManagerPanel SalesPersonPanel = (Ice.Lib.Framework.EpiDockManagerPanel)csm.GetNativeControlReference("501d683b-5674-4366-82f6-4d47dd91fe5f");
			SalesPersonPanel.Visible = false;

hkeric.wci · April 10, 2019, 10:04pm

Right, I use .Close() not Visible

skearney · April 11, 2019, 3:17pm

When I change it to this:

			SalesPersonPanel.Close();

I get this error:  Error: CS1061 - line 5271 (15557) - 'Ice.Lib.Framework.EpiDockManagerPanel' does not contain a definition for 'Close' and no extension method 'Close' accepting a first argument of type 'Ice.Lib.Framework.EpiDockManagerPanel' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

rnewell · April 11, 2019, 4:42pm

I’m not sure if it’s recommended or not but I have gone into Customization Maintenance and opened “Show Custom data”. If I try to set a property and it isn’t sticking sometimes it shows here and I can change the value. I had a tab I could not make visible after hiding it and I was able to fix it here.

Chris_Conn · May 20, 2020, 5:48pm

I am reviving this topic to add some additional info. On a customization I was working on, I could not grab the PaneFromKey - eventhough I had the key (had to find via decompiling) it would not work.

I found that PanelFromControl worked like a champ when I passed the relevant control, which was easily viewable in the Customization Tree.

tkoch · May 22, 2020, 7:30pm

How did you use PanelFromControl @Chris_Conn is this a method on a control?

Chris_Conn · May 22, 2020, 7:36pm

No, it’s still on the DockMgr

revPanel.baseDockManager.PaneFromControl(myControlOnSomePanel).Close();

tkoch · May 22, 2020, 8:39pm

Copy, thank you

AndrewM · January 7, 2021, 6:20am

This is great, but is there a way to dynamically hide and show a panel? Would you have to recreate it if you want to see it again after Close()?

Jon_Evans · January 13, 2021, 1:20pm

Yes, you just call .Show().

AndrewM · January 13, 2021, 9:29pm

Thanks. I guess whoever implemented this didn’t consider that Open is the opposite of Close and Show is the opposite of Hide. Not a problem once you know.