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phetsims / natural-selection

"Natural Selection" is an educational simulation in HTML5, by PhET Interactive Simulations
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Mutation Coming disabled if Add Mutation button is hidden #287

Closed KatieWoe closed 3 years ago

KatieWoe commented 3 years ago

Device Dell OS Win Browser Chrome Problem Description For https://github.com/phetsims/QA/issues/662. Feel free to close if this is intended behavior, but it seemed odd to me. In Studio, if you add a mutation, but it hasn't appeared, and then you hide that mutation button (such as with naturalSelection.labScreen.view.addMutationsPanel.teethRow.visibleProperty) the mutation is canceled and isn't added in the next generation. This doesn't seem to cause a problem in the mutation is already introduced. Visuals goesawaywhenhidden

amanda-phet commented 3 years ago

Is this a bug? It seems like a strange use of studio, to me. But I'll let @pixelzoom take a look and decide if it's worth fixing.

KatieWoe commented 3 years ago

Not sure if it is a bug, feel free to remove if not. I did also notice that hiding the gene didn't seem to remove the line from the graph. You would have to disable that line first, then hide the gene.

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KatieWoe commented 3 years ago

If you hide the whole panel, this visual oddity happens.

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pixelzoom commented 3 years ago

As @amanda-phet said, this is a strange use of Studio. It's also not a supported use of this feature - you can't schedule a mutation to occur, hide the mutation, and expect what you scheduled to be cancelled. Showing/hiding a mutation (or the Add Mutation panel) is something that is configured for the screen, and there's no pedagogical reason to change it after configuration. So... Closing as "won't fix".