Display.Hidden not working?

[Rstreet]

Hello -

I am hoping someone might be able to tell me why the below does not work? Basically, I am trying to hide a button; using another button. From the research I have found, it seems the below should work...but it doesn't...nothing happens? 😞

Anyone have any ideas as to what may be preventing the below from working:

Button name: Attach

this.getField("Attach").display = display.hidden;

Thanks in advance for your time

[Rstreet · Accepted solution]

Never mind...I found it...just removed the "this." and all is well

Final working result:

getField("Attach").display = display.hidden;

Thank you

[try67]

That should not matter. From what context did you run this code?

[Rstreet]

Hi Try67 -

Yes, I would not have thought that would have mattered; but apparently with buttons it does. It works fine on text box fields with the "this." included; but not buttons for whatever reason? When I removed the "this." it worked on the button(s).

I was using this in the Action control, Mouse Up, Run Java Script

[try67]

Works fine for me.

[Rstreet]

Well now that is interesting...ya, I only had the one line for testing purposes...for whatever reasons it was not working with buttons, for me; only text box fields. I am using Pro X...not sure if that makes a diff?

[try67]

I tried it in XI Pro. Could be a bug in your specific version.

[Rstreet]

It is puzzling...thanks for your response and input Try67. Not sure why, but got it to work. Hopefully this will help anyone else out there that may have or is experiencing something similar.

Thanks again

Best regards

[Thom Parker]

it sounds like something is happening to change the context of the event.

put this code in the same button script and let us know the result that shows in the console window:

console.println("test:" + this.toString()");

it should print

[object Doc]

if not, then something is off.

[Rstreet]

Hi Thom -

Well...hmmmm...I can't seem to get past this?

[try67]

Drop the last set of double-quotes.