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Title explains everything. This will save a looooooot of lines.

Example of the current situation:
I have a variable called $VAR[sub_label] with 50< conditions.
If I want to move a label control a few pixels to the bottom within a list - because the sub_label variable is empty - I'll have to add all those conditions as visiblity condition too.

Edit:

Example use case

Code:

<variable name="example">

<value condition="String.IsEqual(ListItem.DBType,movie)">Another movie</value>

<value condition="String.IsEqual(ListItem.DBType,tvshow)">Another tvshow</value>

</variable>

Code:

<control type="list">

...

<itemlayout>

<control type="label">

<label>My Label</label>

<animation effect="slide" end="0,10" time="0" condition="Var.IsEmpty(example)">Conditional</animation>

</control>

<control type="label">

<top>20</top>

<label>$VAR[example]</label>

</control>

</itemlayout>

<focusedlayout>

<control type="label">

<label>My Label</label>

<animation effect="slide" end="0,10" time="0" condition="Var.IsEmpty(example)">Conditional</animation>

</control>

<control type="label">

<top>20</top>

<label>$VAR[example]</label>

</control>

</focusedlayout>

</control>

Have you tried using a label ID and then Control.GetLabel(ID) for the visibility condition:

Code:
<control type="label" id="9001">

    <label>$VAR[sub_label]</label>

</control>

<visible>String.IsEmpty(Control.GetLabel(9001))</visible>

I'm aware of those "skin hacks" Smile

. Off course this works, but not for a list control where I need it for every single displayed item.

Edit:
I've adjusted my example above to get a better understanding of the problem.

Ah, ok I see what you are trying to do now. I originally thought you were talking about a grouplist.

Definitely can see the use case for a normal list. Makes for much more straightforward and readable code too.

+1

sualfred

jurialmunkey

sualfred

jurialmunkey