HIDE / SHOW active panels

Question

hallo another tweak to my tiny script...
I know its a little foolish to be tweaking such a little nonsense script BUT hey everybody has to start somewhere and THAT'S what a forum is about :)
I got this problem:
Iam trying to hide all panels i have currentlly visible and later show them again as they were before... i can do it in two separate scripts (scriptHIDE, scriptSHOW) thats fine with me...
i just need to script an exact functionality of pressing TAB key (show/hide panels)
when i use "app.panels.everyItem().visible = false" all the panels dissapear BUT there is no way to show them back :) they are gone
when i in contrary use "app.panels.everyItem().visible = true" InDesign shows EVERY panel possible...
isnt there some smarter and cleaner way to toggle ON / OFF panels but only those which are currentlly visible (including Tools and Control)...

Answer 1

Hi Rosta,
My idea is to save "visible" property of every panel in an array, and then after making every panel invisible you can restore the visible state of the panels:
// remember which panels visible and invisible in array
var arr = app.panels.everyItem().visible;
// make every panel invisible
app.panels.everyItem().visible = false;
// restore settings from the array
for (i=app.panels.length -1; i>=0; i--){
app.panels[i].visible = arr[i];
Kasyan