[kepler-dev] Setting _hideName in subclass of ptolemy.actor.lib.Stop

[Edward A. Lee]

Very mysterious... Seems to violate the laws of physics.
I guess I would need to see all the code to assess...

Edward


Michal Owsiak wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I have encountered following issue.
> 
> In ptolemy.actor.lib.Stop constructor there are following lines:
> 
> _attachText("_iconDescription", "<svg>\n"
>                 + "<polygon points=\"-8,-19 8,-19 19,-8 19,8 8,19 "
>                 + "-8,19 -19,8 -19,-8\" " + "style=\"fill:red\"/>\n"
>                 + "<text x=\"-15\" y=\"4\""
>                 + "style=\"font-size:11; fill:white;
> font-family:SansSerif\">"
>                 + "STOP</text>\n" + "</svg>\n");
> 
> // Hide the name because the name is in the icon.
> _hideName = new SingletonParameter(this, "_hideName");
> _hideName.setToken(BooleanToken.TRUE);
> _hideName.setVisibility(Settable.EXPERT);
> 
> 
> I have subclassed from ptolemy.actor.lib.Stop and I want to make actor's
> name visible. I am performing following:
> 
> _hideName.setToken(BooleanToken.FALSE);
> _hideName.setVisibility(Settable.FULL);
> 
> however, _hideName parameter is still set to true, while visibility mode
> is full. This means that:
> 
> _hideName.setVisibility(Settable.FULL);
> 
> works fine - visibility mode is changed, while
> 
> _hideName.setToken(BooleanToken.FALSE);
> 
> does not change _hideName parameter value. What am I doing wrong here?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Michal
> 
> 
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