Outline view: show element details when regulators change #59

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opened 2025-02-27 19:02:38 +00:00 by Vectornaut · 3 comments

Vectornaut commented

2025-02-27 19:02:38 +00:00

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If you add an inversive distance regulator between A and B, and then add one between A and C, and then select B and C and add a regulator, presuming that neither of the dropdowns for B or C is open, there is precisely zero feedback that the operation occurred. That seems like a ui bug. Perhaps the (first? both?) subject(s) of a new regulator should auto-open on creation?

To reduce visual noise, we could trigger the auto-show only when all subjects' details are hidden.

From [this comment](pulls/48#issuecomment-2180): > If you add an inversive distance regulator between A and B, and then add one between A and C, and then select B and C and add a regulator, presuming that neither of the dropdowns for B or C is open, there is precisely zero feedback that the operation occurred. That seems like a ui bug. Perhaps the (first? both?) subject(s) of a new regulator should auto-open on creation? To reduce visual noise, we could trigger the auto-show only when all subjects' details are hidden.

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2025-02-27 19:31:34 +00:00

Generalize constraints to observables #48

glen commented

2025-02-28 23:56:08 +00:00

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@Vectornaut wrote in glen/dyna3#59 (comment):

From this comment:

If you add an inversive distance regulator between A and B, and then add one between A and C, and then select B and C and add a regulator, presuming that neither of the dropdowns for B or C is open, there is precisely zero feedback that the operation occurred. That seems like a ui bug. Perhaps the (first? both?) subject(s) of a new regulator should auto-open on creation?

To reduce visual noise, we could trigger the auto-show only when all subjects' details are hidden.

Sounds reasonable. And in that case do you open both? Or do you just want to defer this issue until after we switch to a view in which elements and regulators are viewed in a more egalitarian fashion?

@Vectornaut wrote in https://code.studioinfinity.org/glen/dyna3/issues/59#issue-462: > From [this comment](/glen/dyna3/pulls/48#issuecomment-2180): > > > If you add an inversive distance regulator between A and B, and then add one between A and C, and then select B and C and add a regulator, presuming that neither of the dropdowns for B or C is open, there is precisely zero feedback that the operation occurred. That seems like a ui bug. Perhaps the (first? both?) subject(s) of a new regulator should auto-open on creation? > > To reduce visual noise, we could trigger the auto-show only when all subjects' details are hidden. Sounds reasonable. And in that case do you open both? Or do you just want to defer this issue until after we switch to a view in which elements and regulators are viewed in a more egalitarian fashion?

Vectornaut commented

2025-03-01 00:39:18 +00:00

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Or do you just want to defer this issue until after we switch to a view in which elements and regulators are viewed in a more egalitarian fashion?

Yes: the issue becomes moot if we ditch the outline view, which seems like a real possibility.

> Or do you just want to defer this issue until after we switch to a view in which elements and regulators are viewed in a more egalitarian fashion? Yes: the issue becomes moot if we ditch the outline view, which seems like a real possibility.

glen commented

2025-03-01 02:12:52 +00:00

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Ok, marking this as dependent on #44, which I think is the direction the dependencies field is expected to be used.

Ok, marking this as dependent on #44, which I _think_ is the direction the dependencies field is expected to be used.