RE: [cgmo-webcgm] QUESTION. "direct child" or "descendant"?

[Dieter Weidenbrück <dieter@itedo.com>]

option 3 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lofton Henderson [mailto:lofton@rockynet.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 12:45 AM
> To: cgmo-webcgm@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [cgmo-webcgm] QUESTION. "direct child" or "descendant"?
> 
> 
> 3.2.1.5.  Grnode
> ----------
> "...'grnode' is not interactive; i.e., it does not receive 
> mouse events. 
> The content of a 'grnode' can however be interactive if it 
> [the grnode] is a direct child of a 'grobject', 'para' or 'subpara'".
> 
> Do we really mean "direct child"?  5.7.10 says, "An 
> application structure of type 'grnode' or 'layer' cannot be a 
> target of a mouse event. Instead, if the mouse pointer was 
> over a 'grnode' when the event occurred; its closest ancestor 
> object of type 'grobject', 'para' or 'subpara' will be 
> designated as the target element."
> 
> I guess the wording of 3.2.1.5 was chosen that way so that 
> the containing 'grobject' would tightly contain the 'grnode', 
> like this
> 
> grnobject go1
>      grnode gn1
>          [...]
>      /grnode
> /grobject
> 
> and look effectively to be the same object as the containing 
> 'grobject'.  As opposed to gn1 in something like this:
> 
> grobject go1
>      grnode gn0
>          [...]
>          grnode gn1
>              [...]
>          /grnode
>          grnode gn2
>              [...]
>          /grnode
>      /grnode
> /grobject
> 
> Opt.1:  leave it as is.
> Opt.2:  change to something like, "...can effectively appear 
> to be interactive if it is a direct child of ..."
> Opt.3:  change to something like, "...can effectively appear 
> to be interactive if it is a descendant of ..."
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> -Lofton.
> 
> 
>