DC child component

[Jorgensen]

hi

i have just started experimenting with dc, and i have a quick question.

i have a group - "char", that contains two groups "seat", "legs".

i have added a onClick behavior that i would like to hide / show the legs (just for testing).

i thought i could do something like legs.SET("hidden", 0, 1), but that gives an error.

i can ad the onclick behavior direct at the "legs", but when they are hidden, i can't click to show them again - so i thought the solution could be to add the behavior to the parent.

is it possible to access childs from the main group?

thanks
jorgensen

[pcmoor]

create an attribute say called hide in the parent and give it a value 0, toggle this via the onClick with SET("hide", 0, 1).

Then for hidden attribute value within the children(legs)
hidden = parent!hide (or char!hide)

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example

[pcmoor]

can use SET("legs!Hidden", 0, 1) as direct reference as well

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example 2

[Jorgensen]

hi pcmoor

thank you very much for your fast reply.

i have opened your file and it works just fine!

i have tried to replicate the same behavior to my own model, but i can't get it to work - though it seems that i have done exactly the same.

could i ask you to test the file? it might just be a typeping error

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save.skp

[pcmoor]

hav't an explanation to why example 2 does not work, however able to fix using example 1

will look into it tomorrow

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save.skp

[pcmoor]

the difference between my examples (hide.skp) and your model (save.skp) is the parent is a component in mine whereas yours is a group. It appears groups can't pass down a value, but rather they need to reference the parent.