Visible

Introduction

The Visible variable controls whether an object and its children appear.

Example

Setting Visible to false hides the selected instance.

Visible property controls whether an instance is hidden or shown

Parent/Child Visibility

Setting a parent's Visible variable to false also hides all children. Note that this does not explicitly set the Visible property to false for all children, but a child's effective visibility depends on its parent.

A parent's Visible value controls whether children are visible

Visibility and Stacking

If an instance is part of a parent which stacks its children (has a Children Layout of Left to Right Stack or Top to Bottom Stack), then it will no longer be considered when stacking siblings if it is invisible. In other words, making an item invisible removes it from the stack.

Invisible siblings are not considered in stacking

If the stack contains children which use a Width Units of Ratio, then hiding any of the siblings results in the children with ratio width adjusting to occupy the extra space.

Invisible siblings are not considered when calculating used space for Width Units of Ratio.

Selecting Invisible Objects

An invisible object can be selected by clicking on it in the Project tab or in the Editor tab.

Invisible objects can be selected

Visible items are given preferential selection even if they are ordered behind invisible items.

The visible ColoredRectangle is selected before the invisible container