Disabled splitter still reacts on mouse

[stephanParticipant]

Hi,

I’d like to be able to fully disable a splitter, meaning that it should also not change the mouse cursor when disabled. Changing the mosue cursor is a visual indication to the user that something will happen when clicking. Yet a disabled splitter changes the mosue cursor but nothing happens when clicking.

This fiddle demonstrates my problems:
http://jsfiddle.net/ZUNvp/4/

Hovering over the spliter or the splitter button will show normal mouse cursor reaction, even though the splitter is disabled.

Sidenote: yes I also looked at ‘showSplitBar’, but this removes the entire splitter element, so that there is no longer a separator between the panels. I just want to lock the pane sizes and not have the splitter change the mouse, which will mislead the user into thinking that something should happen.

Regards,
Stephan

[DimitarParticipant]

Hello Stephan,

Thank you for your feedback. There seems to be an issue with the disabled property. However, you may use the disable method to achieve what you require, i.e.:

$("#split1").jqxSplitter({
    orientation: 'horizontal',
    width: "100%",
    height: "100%",
    panels: [{
        size: '50%'
    }]
});
$("#split1").jqxSplitter('disable');

Best Regards,
Dimitar

jQWidgets team
http://www.jqwidgets.com/

[stephanParticipant]

Hi Dimitar,

Thanks for your advice. I now understand how “disabled” is supposed to work”. Regrattably this is not what I wanted to achieve. The “disabled” functionality actually disables both panels as well as the splitter bar. I only want to disabled just the splitter bar, not the two panels. Meaning: in “Splitter Active” mode you can drag/click it and in “Splitter Inactive” mode it does not react to drag/click/hover, thus locking the size of the two panels connected to the splitter.

I guess my requirement falls outside of the feature scope of jqxSplitter, but maybe you could consider adding this (nice and useful) extra feature to a future version of jqxSplitter ?

Regards,
Stephan

[DimitarParticipant]

Hi Stephan,

You can actually achieve your requirement by setting the resizable property to false and each panel’s collapsible property to false.

Best Regards,
Dimitar

jQWidgets team
http://www.jqwidgets.com/

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