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Subject: Re[2]: [cgmo-webcgm] ISSUE: what does 'get..' return?
Wednesday, April 27, 2005, 4:10:13 PM, Dieter wrote: DW> all, DW> reply to Lofton's comments, considering Benoit's comments at the same time. DW> viewcontext: DW> My recollection from the Cologne f2f meeting is that we talked about DW> returning the bounding box in case there is no viewcontext. DW> However, any decision is good for me. DW> interactivity/visibility/inheritance: LH>> It seems to me that we're potentially talking about two LH>> different things: LH>> first, the Document Object -- a tree that is initially defined LH>> according to LH>> DOM rules by data that occurs in the WebCGM document instance LH>> (+ XCF); and LH>> second, a "viewer object", which tells us not about the WebCGM LH>> document but LH>> about the viewed picture. DW> IMO, a DOM get call does not return the state found in the document, DW> it will return the current state. DW> Example: DW> A WebCGM is read in to memory, then an XML companion file is used to DW> set visibility. Of course you want to know about the current state of DW> the visibility when doing a get. DW> Or: DW> an APS is read without a viewcontext. A set call is used to set one on DW> the APS. A subsequent get would retrieve this set viewcontext, not the DW> state found in the WebCGM. The functionality that is defined in the spec does handle both of those cases. It is returning the current state, but the 'specified' current state, not the 'computed' (i.e., inherited) current state. DW>> So the "get" on myObj2 would give you an "undefined" according to your DW>> suggestion. However, according to the inheritance rules, the actual DW>> behavior is off as inherited from myObj1. DW>> So the behavior is not undefined, just the attribute is not there. DW>> Shouldn't we return "inherit" in such a case? BB>>Good question... but if we look at other existing technologies that do BB>>use inheritance, say HTML and SVG; the answer would be no, an empty BB>>string is returned. DW> So in this case we should still have a value "inherit", because that is DW> the actual value. Both on or off are explicit behaviors, inherit is an DW> explicit behavior to inherit from ancestors. DW> I am also thinking about the following case: DW> BEGAPS 'first' DW> 'visibility' off DW> BEGAPS 'second' DW> 'visibility' on DW> ENDAPS; DW> ENDAPS; DW> now I want to set visibility on "second" to inherit. It is not possible DW> to do so as there is no explicit value. I could only delete the attribute. At the moment, yes, the only way is to remove the attribute. Is this not sufficient? -- Benoit mailto:benoit@itedo.com DW> Suggestion: DW> we should have a value "inherit", and then set the default value to it, DW> i.e. in case there is no attribute in the file. DW> I can see that we could continue to play with "undefined" values, however, DW> we describe a well defined behavior, and we want to be able to set it DW> explicitely. DW> Thoughts? DW> Regards, DW> Dieter
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