Hide and Lock
Hide and Show components
There're many reasons that you may want to hide some components:
- Too many components on the screen and you want to focus on some of them
- You may just partially done with some components and don't want to show them yet
- There're some problems with some components and you want to ignore them for temporary
- You're not sure whether some components should be kept or not
Instead of removing them directly, you can hide them for temporary and make dicision later.
You can select the component then right click to hide it, both on the component tree or in the canvas. Or directly click
On the component tree.
The hidden component can be shown again by similar way.
Starting from v0.21.0, the hide & show state of components can be kept if the project is saved.
What can you do with a hidden component?
You can:
- Hover them on component tree to highlight their position in canvas
- Select them on component tree to change their attrbutes and styles
Even you can still select a hidden component on component tree, and edit their attributes and styles, but it's not such a good idea to edit something you can see. So it's not suggested.
You cannot:
- Hover to highlight them or select them on canvas
- Drag to select them on canvas
- Drag & move a component to align with hidden components
Hidden components will not be involved in code generation and building, just like they are not there.
As for hidden screens, they're not actually being hidden, but they're not involved in code generation and building.
Lock and unlock components
If there're too many components on the screen, you can lock some of the components to avoid editing them accidently, by following ways:
- On the component tree, click
- Select component then right click
Lock - Select component then click system menu
Edit-Lock
The locked component can be unlocked again by similar way.
Locked component will not be saved to local, it will be unlocked when you open the project next time.