Arnie, Stephen,
Many thanks my friends.  I am embarrassed to say that I haven't looked at
layers (I'm such a newbie but very keen ...).  I will make that my
thanksgiving project.

Thank you guys.

Neil

"Stephen McAvoy" <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 19:10:06 -0600, "Neil Kolban" <kol### [at] kolbancom>
> wrote:
>
> >1. There is a bug in "absolute visibility"
> >2. I have a misunderstanding on the function
>
> I just checked and Visibility works fine for me with the same build.
> But I checked a bit further and it does seem a bit flaky. The Absolute
> checkbox behaves strangely, if you check it in one object it is
> displayed selected in all objects and groups. Then if you unselect it,
> it is displayed un-selected in all objects and groups.
> If you have a hierarchy the Absolute value seems to be taken from the
> one immediately above.
>
> If you have Global Visibility 10 and
>
> Group1 -- Group2 -- Object
> Visibility: 10 -- 4 -- 3
> If Group2 is set to not Absolute i.e. 14. Then no mater what you do to
> the Object it will not be visible. (If you know what I mean) So what
> you described is confirmed. I think?
> I have not used visibility very much since Layers was introduced. My
> MorayStart.mdl has an invisible layer.
>
>
> Regards
>         Stephen

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