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Opposite boolean property (negation)

  • July 26, 2024
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Martin_Maricak

Sometimes I want one boolean component property to both show something, and hide something else.

It would be cool to be able to not only assign a boolean property to layer visibility, but also to indicate that it should show the layer if the property is false.

Example scenario: Imagine a situation where I’m designing favourites section on the app’s sidebar. I want a sidebar to be a component. Now when favourites is empty, I want to show an empty state with a CTA instead of the CTA. And I want to add a toggle that both hides an empty state, and shows a list of favorite items.

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    djv
    Figmate
    • djv
    • Community Support
    • July 29, 2024

    Hey @Martin_Maricak, thanks for the feedback!

    We’ll pass this idea onto our team for future consideration.

      Desislava_Slavkova

      Yes please allow user to define property to opposite of boolean value!


      This would save so much work - I have to always create additional booleans to cover for those scenario when hiding one thing needs to show something else.

       

        Don Pixeloni

        Yes please!
        This would simplify and accelerate using a Boolean for a far more realistic operation:
        a single action to HIDE something and then SHOW something else - perhaps:
         



        This offers a vast improvement on the current (often impractical) ways to get the same effect including: 
        1. Fiddly ‘if’ statements that reference the Boolean’s current state
        2. Potentially elaborate component variants.
        3. Navigating across frames

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