Category visibility change during runtime

Hi Sasha,

I looked through the code but unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to hide categories dynamically since categories don't have a visibility option.  Properties don't have a built-in visibility either, since the example you are using implements it externally from the product.  I'd probably recommend that you turn off categories in the property grid if you will be potentially hiding all properties in a category.

I should have also mentioned in the previous post that if turning off categories isn't an option, you could possibly try to implement visibility for categories in a similar way to how you are doing it for properties, which is based on the code in the Selective Visibility QuickStart.  In the CustomDataFactory class, you could override the CreateCategoryDataAccessor method and then make a CustomCategoryDescriptorDataAccessor.  You'd have to add all the IsVisible sort of logic into that and update MainControl.Resources to add a Trigger for categories that also sets the Visibility.

I've overried ICategoryDataAccessor CreateCategoryDataAccessor. So may be I am doing something wrong, but this method is used only when I load Categories, and later, when I change property's visibility, this method is not called. In the code you can see that createCategoryDataAccessor launches when I load properties, and when I change property value and visibility(dataAccessors = base.GetProperties(value, options);) this overriden method is not launching.

      }
            else
            {
                // Fall back to using the base method's results for nested objects
                dataAccessors = base.GetProperties(value, options);
            }

            return dataAccessors;
        }

        protected override ICategoryDataAccessor CreateCategoryDataAccessor(string displayName)
        {
            return new CustomCategoryDescriptorDataAccessor(displayName);
        }

 And my xaml is :

 <Style TargetType="{x:Type propgrid:PropertyGridDataAccessorItem}">
     <Style.Triggers>
         <Trigger Property="DataAccessorType" Value="Category">
             <Setter Property="Visibility" Value="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}, Path=DataContext.IsCategoryVisible, Converter={StaticResource BooleanToVisibilityConverter}}"/>
         </Trigger>
         <Trigger Property="DataAccessorType" Value="Property">
             <Setter Property="Visibility" Value="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}, Path=DataContext.IsVisible, Converter={StaticResource BooleanToVisibilityConverter}}" />
         </Trigger>
     </Style.Triggers>
 </Style>

 And secondly property IsCategoryVisible is applaying to all categories, and not to each specific category.

Any ideas how to solve this?

Hi Sasha,

I wouldn't think that the visibility property would affect all instances if set up properly, since it should be the same sort of mechanism that is used with properties.  I'm not sure how to solve your problem other that perhaps doing a full Refresh of the PropertyGrid to force the category accessors to be recreated.

Another thing you might want to look into is the Filters QuickStarts.  Those enable you to hide properties and the parent categories will be hidden too since this all is part of the PropertyGrid control, versus the machanism you are using which is external.