Hiding / Showing Instance Inspector

> Jim
>> Is it possible to turn the instance inspector on and off with  
>> triggers? The following toggles which buttons show, but the  
>> inspector is always visible.
>
> just put the "hide" trigger together with the inspector into a  
> xforms:group element:
>
> <xforms:switch>
>    <xforms:case id="inspector-visible" selected="true">
>        <xforms:group>
>            <xforms:trigger>
>                <xforms:label>Hide Inspector</xforms:label>
>                <xforms:toggle ev:event="DOMActivate" case="inspector-
> hidden" />
>            </xforms:trigger>
>            <widget:xforms-instance-inspector
>                xmlns:widget="http://orbeon.org/oxf/xml/widget" />
>        </xforms:group>
>    </xforms:case>
>    <xforms:case id="inspector-hidden" selected="false">
>        <xforms:trigger>
>            <xforms:label>Show Inspector</xforms:label>
>            <xforms:toggle ev:event="DOMActivate" case="inspector-
> visible" />
>        </xforms:trigger>
>    </xforms:case>
> </xforms:switch>
>
> HTH
> florian
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> Jim,
>
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 6:54 AM, Jim Logan <[hidden email]> wrote:
>  
>> Thank you, Florian, that worked! I don't understand why the group helps, but
>> it does work!
>>    
>
> Whatever is inside a case which is not selected gets the class
> xforms-case-deselected, which has a display: none. The XForms
> Inspector has a span with a class widgets-xforms-instance-inspector
> with has a display: block, and it happens to take the precedence of
> the display: none of xforms-case-deselected. This is why adding a
> group solves the problem. To be compatible with the switch/case, the
> XForms Inspector could have another layer of span.
>
> Alex
>