Some way to hide filters settings panel from excluding components?

I know that this maybe it is not possible, as I remember I have seen something somewhere else, but do not know where, but any way I ask it here for FF 3.0.

I want to mix three snippets that are excluding themselves, I mean that when using the switch ONLY one of the snippets would be used and not any part of the other two, BUT the settings of the three snippets appear all together in the same settings panel even when you do not need them all at once.

And there is no way to organize settings by groups or parts as all the settings are always mixed together in just one only list that you can of course organize and order as you want, but it can be a mess of settings.

And it can happen that you may modify settings that are not working because they are from the part of the snippets that is not used in that moment.

Does the Groups in FF 4.0 are able to be activated or desactivated in some way for this to happen?

Thanks

here below I show a possible example to help explain it more

Well it looks like you will have to delete those controls and then adjust the settings on the component accordingly...

From the above example I want that with this filter that have two very different effects and that when going to the settings panel and when you have:

* the switch unchecked it would ONLY show in the settings panel the setttings applied to the RED group of components AND NOT SHOW the settings of the BLUE group

* and when you check on the switch it would ONLY show in the settings panel the settings from the BLUE group and do not show the ones from the RED group.

There is no point of having Mortar and Mortar width settings if you have choosen to use the first effect, as it will do nothing on the first effect and will not work at all, and would be confusing for customizing and knowing what can be used and will work.

And also the opposite, and if you only want the second effect, the others setting from the first group would not work or show any change.

FF 4.0 GROUPS SWITCH ON/OFF FOR SETTINGS

I think that this thread should have been much better in the "Features Wishlist" instead of here

I think that one good way and easy to make this would be to use the FF 4.0 Groups and that all the included settings from that groups could be switched ON/OFF if this group is selected and used by the filter, and become desactivated if it is not used. This could be with a simple switch component.

SEPARATING SETTINGS IN THE SETTINGS PANEL NOW IN FF 3.0

As far as I know the only way to separate and organize settings by groups inside the setting panel without hiding them is to use dummy controls that allows you to have some text on it to make a separation

SpaceRay, I understood perfecly what you wanted on the 1st post of this thread!

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SpaceRay wrote: I think that this thread should have been much better in the "Features Wishlist" instead of here

I was going to write exactly that!
*IF* this feature were implemented wisely, would be a huge game changer on organizing filter's GUI to the users for sure!
More options to customize filter's GUI is an old feature request, as I found some time ago...