To setVisible as false to inner container when the outer container having replicants

hariharan_1985

Hi,
I need to setVisible as false to inner containers according to selection in select box.
But the outer container has replicants.
So i have to set invisibility to all the replicants of outer container.
for this criteria,I know that to use Onreplicantadded().

But i can't able to find the max value of the container to iterate within the loop.

Adam Stoller

Hi, I need to setVisible as false to inner containers according to selection in select box. But the outer container has replicants. So i have to set invisibility to all the replicants of outer container. for this criteria,I know that to use Onreplicantadded(). But i can't able to find the max value of the container to iterate within the loop.

Is the select box within or outside the replicant container?
OnReplicantAdded is not a function, it's an event with which you can associate a function / event handler - and I the only way I see it playing a role here is that once you click on the checkbox and set the visibility (or lack thereof) of these inner-elements for all pre-existing instances of the replicant container, you want to make sure that any new instances of the replicant container are properly initialized with respect to these elements visibility.

So - basically you have an onItemChange event handler for your checkbox - which should call some function that iterated through all the children of the replicant container searching for the item(s) on which you wish to adjust the visibility - and you want an OnReplicantAdded event handler that gets invoked any time a new instance of the replicant container is added - that will check the current status of that checkbox and adjust the visibility of the item(s) within that newly added replicant accordingly.

The onItemChange event handler function almost definitely needs to iterate through the children in order to do what you want.

The OnReplicantAdded event handler function might not need to iterate through children (depends on how complex the structure of the replicant instance is with respect to what you're trying to accomplish).

I suggest you spend some [more?] time with the FormAPI manual and work out the code slowly with a bunch of alert() debugging statements so that you can see what's going on.