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Wade Schuette
Wade Schuette

Reputation: 1473

Is there some way to hide an interface widget through code?

I'm trying to solve the problem of having only one model to update, but with a simplified interface for younger students and a more complete interface for advanced users. The advanced interface has too many sliders and switches on it for novice users, and it would only confuse them.

Is there any way to use code to ask the interface to hide a control?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 56

Answers (2)

Andrea
Andrea

Reputation: 557

Disclaimer: this is a quick workaround to achieve what you asked, no code needed.

Group the sliders,etc. you want to hide and then cover them with the output widget. In this way you only need one model and you can add/remove the output widget depending on the audience.

Upvotes: 0

Nicolas Payette
Nicolas Payette

Reputation: 14972

The xw (eXtraWidgets) extension was designed for exactly that purpose. It allows you to create extra interface tabs and programmatically put widgets on them.

  • First disclaimer: I am the author of this extension.

  • Second disclaimer: though I have updated it to work in NetLogo 6, it has not been as well tested with recent versions, so there might be bugs here and there. If you stumble upon something, please open an issue on the GitHub repo.

Note that there also used to be a goo extension, but it has never been updated to work on NetLogo 6.

Upvotes: 1

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