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Re: Background color controls for constr and part list images
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Thu, 3 Apr 2003 15:59:30 GMT
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"Kevin L. Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Let me try to restate this by example:
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> Step N adds three LDraw parts, plus a sub-model. You want the part list
> image for Step N to include the three added parts, plus all the parts • needed to
> create the sub-model. Right?
Yes, and the same for the included sub-sub-models as well.
It would be good to have a control for doing this or not for each step
including a sub-model, as there as some sub-models which are too complex to
include in steps in this way, and therefore need their own pages in the
instructions.
So, for example, we have the step as described previously with sub-model and
sub-submodel included in a single top level step - would "sub model
inlining" be an appropriate term for this? :-
[1] http://library.brickshelf.com/scans/8000/8460/8460-015.html
Some sub-models are too large or complex for this, however. In the same
instructions there is also a sub-model representing the crane superstructure
which is done in the standard way, the way LPub currently does it :-
[2] http://library.brickshelf.com/scans/8000/8460/8460-028.html
Of course, things are not that simple! Case [2] shows a sub-model, but there
are sub-models in this sub-model which are of course sub-sub-models, and
those are rendered on a yellow background. Now in the case [1], with the
sub-model and sub-sub-models directly included in the top level step, the
equivalent level model is on a pink background.
In other words, the colour of the background of a model, sub-model and
sub-sub-model depends not only on the its explicit place in the model
hierarchy, but also on the context. I think it goes like this:
- If doing a step where there are sub-models explicitly included in that
page such as [1], then do the background colours according to the normal
hierarchy of inclusion.
- If doing a submodel which is not explicitly included as part of a step,
such as [2], then the hierarchy must be promoted up one level, such that the
sub-model is rendered in the same way as the top level model, and so on.
My apologies for the obscureness of this, I wish I could put it more
succintly!
Jennifer
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