GWT Designer intentionally ignores the visibility flag at design time. The correct solution here would be to use a DeckPanel to hold all of the overlapping widgets. This is exactly the job it was designed for.
-Eric On Jan 21, 4:16 pm, musawir ali <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm designing an app that has a lot of dynamic content, where the > widgets are displayed or hidden quite frequently. I'm using GWT > designer Eclipse plugin to do my interface design. The issue that I'm > facing is that if I have a spot in which either widget A or widget B > will be visible, the designer displays both of them and that messes up > the overall look. Note that the actual application in the browser > looks fine, but having a bad preview just hinders the development > process. Furthermore, if I have a number of widgets that take the same > spot (widget A, B, C, D, E, etc), they start falling out of the page > and I can't see them anymore, which makes it impossible to work on > them with the designer interface. I could perhaps take those widgets > out and place them somewhere temporarily where I can work on them, and > then put them back in the appropriate place, but that doesn't sound > very elegant. Are there any solutions to this issue? > > thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
