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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's avatar
    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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speechles
Roku Guru
3 years ago

m.subtitleLabel.height = 1

This will make it disappear. You do not need to do anything else. The layout group will then collapse the subtitleLabel.

 

m.subtitleLabel.height = 0

When you set the label to a height of 0 it will assume you want to use numlines and maxlines which will correspond to the font size.