[x3d-public] X3D working group minutes, 9 JAN 2020: naming of hidden field

[Andreas Plesch]

Don, thanks for keeping an open mind and a willingness to revise.

Two notes. Castle and x3dom use 'render' as field name, and Holger had
also suggested using a positive field name.

https://www.web3d.org/x3d/tooltips/X3dTooltips.html#ViewpointGroup.displayed
links to ~Viewport~, somehow.

Here is a working link:

https://www.web3d.org/x3d/tooltips/X3dTooltips.html#ViewpointGroup

Not sure if listing a viewpoint description in the ui is similar
enough to rendering a shape to require the same naming of the fields.
But 'displayed' would be an option. 'visible' is another suggestion,
'shown' would be shorter, 'show' even shorter.

Previous discussion in the December archive:
http://web3d.org/pipermail/x3d-public_web3d.org/2019-December/thread.html

Holger's comment:
http://web3d.org/pipermail/x3d-public_web3d.org/2019-December/011573.html



On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 9:45 AM Don Brutzman <brutzman at nps.edu> wrote:
>
> On 1/12/2020 6:47 PM, Andreas Plesch wrote:
> > Please consider recasting the 'hidden'  field in a positive sense, for example as 'render'. A false default value is unexpected and a double negative can be confusing.
> >
> > TODO: add hidden field to X3DGroupingNode nodes
>
> Great suggestion.  Another candidate field name that would match ViewpointGroup is 'displayed'.  Whatever we choose, let's please make them match.
>
> * https://www.web3d.org/x3d/tooltips/X3dTooltips.html#ViewpointGroup.displayed
>
> Crossed mails, i just implemented 'hidden' over the weekend - no worries, your suggestion can be easily applied.  There are a few other object-model refinements to apply as well.
>
> Comments prior to Friday's call please everyone, we will decide then.
>
> all the best, Don
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