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cesarcarlos
Binge Watcher
3 years ago
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Remove a label completely from screen if no data is available

I have a screen with a number of labels, but depending on whether a specific piece of data is available or not in the content, I want that label to be displayed or not. So far I have this: if cont...
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    C-DP
    3 years ago

    I tend to have a function something like this

     

    function removeNode(node)

      node.getParent().removeChild(node)

    end function

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C-DP
Channel Surfer
3 years ago

There are a few ways to do this but really removing/re-injecting the label is the primary way you would solve this. 

There are some other hacks that involve setting the scale to [0,0] but that also requires you to populate the item spacing and update them as you do them. 

Most times I would just make all the labels dynamically and remove them all on updates. I also would populate the item spacings as I do that. 

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cesarcarlos
Binge Watcher
3 years ago

How would I remove the label programatically?

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    C-DP
    Channel Surfer
    3 years ago

    I tend to have a function something like this

     

    function removeNode(node)

      node.getParent().removeChild(node)

    end function