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"Capacitor Lab: Basics" is an educational simulation in HTML5, by PhET Interactive Simulations.
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Voltmeter probes read over invisible objects in instance proxies #231

Open BryceAG opened 6 years ago

BryceAG commented 6 years ago

In instance proxies objects can be made invisible, which generally means non-interactive. However, the voltmeter will still read over objects as though they were still there. The image below shows this with the capacitor set to invisible: image (ignore the black background and white text nodes on the right, as that is a computer specific issue)

It is not important for this to be fixed for phetsims/phet-io-wrappers#49 but should be revisited at the next phet-io design meeting.

BryceAG commented 6 years ago

additionally the voltmeter can be put away even if the toolbox is not visible

jonathanolson commented 3 years ago

If we're hiding view elements, that would presumably not affect the model (so the voltmeter reading objects makes sense). We'd want to provide more explicit support for this type of thing.