Hide and show elements in the graphical view #71

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opened 2025-03-10 23:47:56 +00:00 by glen · 1 comment
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Not necessary for the tech demo, but seems like definitely an alpha-level feature, because the graphical view can get unwieldy and so you sometimes need to temporarily turn off some elements to see what's going on.

Not necessary for the tech demo, but seems like definitely an alpha-level feature, because the graphical view can get unwieldy and so you sometimes need to temporarily turn off some elements to see what's going on.
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glen added this to the Alpha project 2025-03-10 23:47:56 +00:00
Vectornaut changed title from Need to be able to hide/show elements in the graphical view to Hide and show elements in the graphical view 2025-03-11 05:24:32 +00:00
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Note we now have ghost mode, with an explicit checkbox. There is clearly some overlap with ghost mode. There seem to be two underlying properties here: opacity and graphical selectability. "Hidden" is an opacity of 0 together with selectability false, whereas "ghost" is an opacity of something low together with selectability false. These are both useful, so we might want to have shortcuts for each of these combos. But ultimately we do want to be able to control these underlying properties directly, once we have a more articulated attributes system.

Note we now have ghost mode, with an explicit checkbox. There is clearly some overlap with ghost mode. There seem to be two underlying properties here: opacity and graphical selectability. "Hidden" is an opacity of 0 together with selectability false, whereas "ghost" is an opacity of something low together with selectability false. These are both useful, so we might want to have shortcuts for each of these combos. But ultimately we do want to be able to control these underlying properties directly, once we have a more articulated attributes system.
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