Need a way to hide a view box if no results returned

So if this box is checked, and no view is displayed, how does one edit the box?

Interesting question. I think boxes in general needs a better way to handle empty-ness. Maybe this is a question that should be addressed at a higher level?

I definitely see a need for hiding a view box to the user if the view is empty. Perhaps people with privileges to edit it should see a 'this box appears empty' placeholder?

I posted a response to the related ticket in the Boxes queue. I don't think the checkbox approach is the best way to do this considering we can now have inline editing for empty boxes for users with the right permissions. Allowing plugins to return nothing seems to be a better option.

Attaching a slightly different patch that also marks the title as '' when there's no content, else you'll have a floating title. Works in conjunction with this patch: http://drupal.org/node/1440178#comment-5600730

updated patch to only look at $content and the view's results, ie no checkbox option to 'hide empty'.