How can I hide a CTabItem in a CTabFolder

I can't find any method for making a tab invisible or otherwise hidden in an SWT/JFace application --- I want a second tab to be available (or not) based on some other preferences set by the user.

It shouldn't be so hard to figure this out!

From stackoverflow

• The only way that I know of is to dispose the CTabItem for the tab you want to hide and then create a new CTabItem when you want to show it. Sort of,

   CTabFolder folder = new CTabFolder(parent, SWT.NONE);
   Label label = new Label(folder, SWT.NONE);
   label.setText("Hello");
   CTabItem item = new CTabItem(folder);
   item.setControl(label);
   // Hide it
   item.dipose();
   // show it again
   CTabItem item = new CTabItem(folder);
   item.setControl(label);
  

  If you want to hide a tab in the middle you'll need to recreate all the tabs after the one you disposed.. It's probably easiest if you create a class that holds the control and a field that can be used to toggle the visibility. Then you can just dipose all the CTabItems and recreate iff the visibility field is true.

  David : Thanks for your response. I appreciate it. I must admit I'm left wondering what the heck the SWT designers were thinking (or not) when they implemented this stuff. (sigh)