Re[4]: [cgmo-webcgm] Highlight test

[Benoit Bezaire <benoit@itedo.com>]

No confusion at all. Your question is quite valid! Sorry for being a
slacker and not getting back to you sooner.

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Wednesday, June 14, 2006, 7:07:28 PM, Galt, Stuart A wrote:

> Hello,

> I am sorry to have caused confusion. I know that highlight is not a
> style property, but I was trying to figure out if it was supposed to
> inherit behavior similar to style properties. I have included 2/3 of
> a potential test case. My confusion may have started because in step
> 2 I remove the

> highlight on "C" but it still remains highlighted. I assume that
> this is because of the nested structure in this CGM and the previous
> call to highlight "B" (that contains "C").

> If highlighting is a state system and that when you turn on
> highlighting for circle B. The entire contents of B (which includes
> "C" and "D") is highlighted.

> For what it is worth, I also agree that we do not want two methods
> of setting a highlight.

> --
> Stuart Galt
> SGML Resource Group
> stuart.a.galt@boeing.com
> (206) 544-3656

>  

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Lofton Henderson [mailto:lofton@rockynet.com] 
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 3:44 PM
>> To: Benoit Bezaire; cgmo-webcgm@lists.oasis-open.org
>> Subject: Re[2]: [cgmo-webcgm] Highlight test
>> 
>> At 05:04 PM 6/14/2006 -0400, Benoit Bezaire wrote:
>> >I'm not so sure about this. After a quick look at our 
>> implementation, I 
>> >don't believe highlight is implemented as an Style Property.
>> 
>> Okay.  But just to be clear (Don's later comment), there is 
>> no highlight SP.
>> 
>> 
>> >As far as I can see, we agreed that highlighting is a 2 
>> state system; 
>> >on or off (i.e., the API has two states: true or false). If 
>> we wanted a 
>> >Style Property like behavior we need three states (true, false, 
>> >inherit).
>> >
>> >So in that particular test file, the code is trying to remove a 
>> >highlight which was never implicitly set.
>> >
>> >I also think that the DOM behavior and the Object behavior should 
>> >match. I don't see anything with regards to inheritance of 
>> highlighting 
>> >in the object behavior section:
>> >http://docs.oasis-open.org/webcgm/v2.0/WebCGM20-IC.html#webcg
> m_3_1_2_4
>> >
>> >I'm not convinced there's a need to have highlight behave 
>> like a Style 
>> >Property... Those are my thoughts, feel free to comment.
>> 
>> Okay.  Let me ask and clarify a point then.  If you 
>> highlight() an APS, then its entire content is subject to the 
>> highlight, including an nested APSs, right?  So we don't 
>> really need to worry about inheritance model.
>> 
>> I can live with that.  I guess the description of highlight() 
>> makes it clear enough, that it's like a virtual 
>> #id(someObject, addHighlight).
>> 
>> Maybe that would be a good clarification comment -- that
>> highlight(someObject) is identical to:  #id(someObject, 
>> newHighlight) or #id(someObject, addHighlight).  Which one?  
>> I'd say the 2nd, 'addHighlight'.  Thoughts?
>> 
>> -Lofton.