Hide & disable send button for certain group of chat interface widgets

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Hi Guys, i am Currently working on Designing my Custom Chat bot, i am trying to create customizable ‘settings’ that change the prompts in the backend. I designed the widgets ‘Chat’, ‘Entscheidungszeitraum’ and ‘Zuständigkeitsbereich’ and i want the send button to only be displayed and active when i am using the widget ‘Chat’. Does anybody know how I can interactively display the send button dependant on the currently active widget?

Code

chat_bot = pn.chat.ChatInterface(callback=get_single_response, avatar=user_avatar, 
widgets=[pn.chat.ChatAreaInput(placeholder="Was möchten Sie wissen?", name='Chat'),
         date_range_slider, county_selection ], user=user_name, 
         show_rerun=False, show_undo=False, show_clear=False)

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def toggle_send(active):
    if active == 0:
        return True
    else:
        return False

chat_bot = pn.chat.ChatInterface(callback=get_single_response, avatar=user_avatar, 
widgets=[pn.chat.ChatAreaInput(placeholder="Was möchten Sie wissen?", name='Chat'),
         date_range_slider, county_selection ], user=user_name, 
         show_rerun=False, show_undo=False, show_clear=False)

chat_bot.show_send = pn.bind(toggle_send, chat_bot.param.active)
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Hi Andrew,
thank you for your response, sadly I could not get your code chunk to work, but based on your idea i solved my problem using the following code:

    def toggle_send(event):
        active = event.obj.active
        if active == 0:
            chat_bot.show_send = True
        else:
            chat_bot.show_send = False

    chat_bot = pn.chat.ChatInterface(avatar=user_avatar,callback=get_single_response ,widgets=[
        pn.chat.ChatAreaInput(placeholder="Was möchten Sie wissen?", name='Chat'), date_range_slider, county_selection
    ], user=user_name, show_rerun=False, show_undo=False, show_clear=False, show_send=True)
    chat_bot._input_layout.param.watch(toggle_send, ['active'], onlychanged=False)
    temp.main.append(chat_bot)
    temp.servable()
    pn.serve(temp)