[kepler-dev] Names, Titles, and Display Names

[David Welker]

Thanks for the answer.

Perhaps someone has some insight into what the "title" is. One thing I  
have noticed is that it only appears on the "Display Actor" when you  
right click on it and choose "Configure Actors." Iat t isn't  
necessarily an attribute of other actors. Chad was suggesting that it  
might simply be the title of the text display box that pops up. That  
would make sense.

The only thing that baffles me though is that I ran into an issue with  
in bug 5144 (http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5144).  
Basically, the problem that is reported in this bug is fixed by  
setting the title, at least if you are using a Display Actor. I think  
this shows that the problem behind this code is somehow related to a  
mixup between the "title" property that is only on some actors like  
Display and the "name" and "display name" properties which are more  
general. I will look into this some more, but if anyone happens to  
know anything more about this, feel free to let me know.

Thanks!

-David



On Dec 2, 2010, at 12:19 AM, Edward A. Lee wrote:

>
> I've never hear of "titles", but the "display name" is used
> in vergil instead of the name when you want a more verbose label.
>
> Edward
>
>
> On 12/1/10 7:31 PM, David Welker wrote:
>> I have noticed that actors have not only "names" but also "titles"  
>> and
>> "display names."
>>
>> Does anyone understand the distinctions between these things and why
>> they exist?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -David
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