Hide Layer does not hide controls (buttons, lists, etc. )

Hello clickers.

In a Fusion 2.5 project I need to show and hide certain layers, say for instance a multiplayer menu, which contains active objects, buttons and lists. Now, when I want to hide the whole layer using the Layer Object, it indeed hides the layer ( all the active objects disappear) but all the controls, such buttons, lists, etc. do remain visibile.

A workaround is to hide each of them, or group them with a qualifier and hide the qualifier(s), but I wonder if I'm missing something obvious here by using the layer object.

Any help/suggestion is appreciated.

Thanks for your attention and have a nice day

Sergio

That's exactly what I do and it does not work as expected. All the active objects disappear, but the controls.

Here an self-explained example. Click on a button to hide the layer who it belongs. You will see that the related active object disappears, while the button does not.

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I think this is not a bug, rather a feature:

Important Note:
The current version of the Layer object doesn't affect the objects that are displayed in their own window (like Button objects, Edit Box objects, Sub-Application objects, etc.). These objects are always displayed in front of the other objects and cannot be moved, shown or hidden by the actions that move, show or hide a layer, or that change the order of the objects.

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As Phi said, also, any time you do UI, make your own custom components, this can be done with the help of multiple object like Active, Active System Box, Strings..etc
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Yes I agree, this is the way to go. And since custom controls are usually made with active objects, they desappear/show nicely with the layer hide/show commands.

Perhaps also using object behaviours would help.

Thank you for the useful comments

Take care

Sergio