Entity.visible? vs entity.hidden?

thomthom

Since ComponentDefinition is inherited from Drawingelement, calling visible? and hidden? seems not to be some incorrect operation leading to undefined behaviour. Yes, they may not represent actual state of geometry, but this shows that visible? is not the same as !hidden? at least at implementation level, and thus can it be safely assumed that they are the same in all other cases?

http://code.google.com/intl/nb/apis/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/drawingelement.html#visible=

@unknownuser said:

The visible= method is used to set the visible status for an element. This method performs an opposite function to the hidden= method.

Might be that the definition class causes an abnormality. Testing against any other DrawingElement derived class that actually is placed in the model they behave as expects. Though it is odd it should return true on both for definition.
In practice - they do refer to the same thing though.