menu setvisible problem

[kgregg]

Not sure if it is a WB issue, but when I build a simple menu and set visible to false:

final Menu menu = new Menu(shlHello, SWT.BAR);
shlHello.setMenuBar(menu);
MenuItem mntmfile = new MenuItem(menu, SWT.NONE);
mntmfile.setText("&File");
menu.setVisible(false);

The resulting menu still displays. If I replace setVisible(false) with setEnabled(false), it displays and is not enabled as I would expect. If I replace mntmfile.setText("&File") and menu.setVisible(false) with mntmfile.setText("") and menu.setEnabled(false) I can get the same effect as not visible, but if I do that I have to re-populate all of my menu items when I want it to display. The idea is that I have a stacklayer form, some layers having the menu and some without. Shouldn't setVisible work that way?

Thanks

[Eric Clayberg]

The product intentionally ignores the visibility flag at design time to make it easier to actually lay out the windows and the menus.

If you are talking about a runtime effect, that would not be a WB issue.

[kgregg]

I'm talking primarily about a runtime effect, but runtime seems to mirror what happens at WB design time. That is, setVisible(false) doesn't seem to have an effect - either at design time or runtime. As an annoying related side-effect, if I manually code it for setVisible(false), the visible property shows up on the WB palette with false indicated as it should (although it doesn't seem to work even at runtime). If I click on false in the palette (setting it to true), the WB parser apparently deletes the setVisible code and the visible property disappears completely from the palette - so I can't re-set it to false without going to the source and manually re-entering my setVisible(false) code.

[Eric Clayberg]

If I click on false in the palette (setting it to true), the WB parser apparently deletes the setVisible code and the visible property disappears completely from the palette - so I can't re-set it to false without going to the source and manually re-entering my setVisible(false) code.

The "visible" property is advanced, so you need to turn on the advanced properties filter to see it all of the time.