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Re: Latest BFC Spec?
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Thu, 13 Mar 2003 02:18:13 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Travis Cobbs writes:
> > Thanks to everyone for the info.
> >
> > Now that I'm reading the spec, I have a question (and may have more later).
> > In one part, it lists three conditions that must be met in order for BFC
> > clipping to occur. The last condition is the following:
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> > 4 - No superfile has disabled clipping prior to referencing this
> > 4 subfile.
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> > As far as I can tell by reading later in the document, this is actually not
> > true. The description of the NOCLIP option says the following:
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> > 4 This option disables the clip-mode in the current file.
> >
> > The key phrase here is "current file". It doesn't say "current file and all
> > subfiles". Since "current file" isn't in the list of definitions, I have to
> > assume it means exactly what it says, which means no subfiles.
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> Sorry this wasn't clear. It does mean 'current file and all subfiles'.
> More accurately, it means 'turn off clipping until/unless it gets turned
> back on in this file, overriding any possibility of clipping in a subfile,
> until the end of this file'.
What if file has NOCLIP, and subfile has CLIP (with or without accompanying
NOCLIP)? Couldn't that become confusing? Should it automagically revert back
to NOCLIP when the subfile is finished?
ROSCO
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Latest BFC Spec?
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| (...) This is really no different from the fact that the incoming certify state has to also be on. So a subfile won't be BFC'd unless all its parents are certified and it is certified as well. Also, presumably if you refer to a subfile in a section (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
| | | Re: Latest BFC Spec?
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| (...) During the rendering process, it is necessary to keep track of both the 'accumulated clip-state' and the 'local clip-state'. The accumulated clip-state is logically equivalent to boolean ANDing the local clip-states of all the parent files. As (...) (21 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Latest BFC Spec? [DAT]
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| (...) Sorry this wasn't clear. It does mean 'current file and all subfiles'. More accurately, it means 'turn off clipping until/unless it gets turned back on in this file, overriding any possibility of clipping in a subfile, until the end of this (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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