Visionary User's Guide

Visionary User's Guide
Appendix A: Object Properties Reference

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Wormhole

A special Visionary object that links two scenes and can carry context information (parameters) from the source scene through to the destination scene.

Valid properties for the Wormhole object are described in the following table.

Property Data Type Description
DestinationScene
String
Name of the destination scene. This property must be a constant string and cannot be calculated.

Location
Point
x, y coordinates of the center of the wormhole.

Width
Numeric
Width of the inner dimensions of the wormhole (does not include the thickness of the border, if any).

Height
Numeric
Height of the inner dimensions of the wormhole (does not include the thickness of the border or the height of tabs if they are displayed).

Visible
Boolean
Determines whether or not the wormhole is visible. An invisible wormhole can still be entered with an event action.

SceneCenter
Point
x, y coordinates of the center of the destination scene.

ZoomPct
Percentage
Incremental scale to be applied to the destination scene.

IndependentViewingPlane
Boolean
Determines whether more of the destination scene is displayed as the viewer zooms closer. If False, the viewer's zoom factor, ViewerZoom, and the ZoomPct property can be multiplied together to determine the cumulative zoom factor for the destination scene.

RecursionLimit
Integer
Maximum wormhole depth for which this wormhole will be displayed.

Title
String
Text to be placed on the tab if a tabbed border is selected.

BorderType
Enum
Style of the wormhole border.

FontName
FontName
Font to be used for a tabbed border.

Size
Numeric
Size of the font used in a tabbed border.

FixedFontSize
Boolean
Determines whether the text in the tabbed border scales with the zoom factor. If True, the text remains the same size regardless of zoom.

Bold
Boolean
Displays the tab text in bold.

Italic
Boolean
Displays the tab text in italics.

FontColor
Color
Specifies the color of the tab text.

When you set properties for Wormhole objects, also specify properties for Scene Parameters objects. The association between a Wormhole object and Scene Parameters objects is represented in Figure A-18.

Figure A-18
Wormhole Objects

The Wormhole object has the following child object.

Object Properties
Scene Parameters
See "Scene Parameter".

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