Restore retroactive marking for LifeHistory in LifeViewer

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Restore retroactive marking for LifeHistory in LifeViewer

Post by MathAndCode » June 3rd, 2021, 6:29 pm

LifeViewer used to be so that if one marked cells in a pattern in LifeHistory that was not on generation zero then went back to a generation before one had set those cells to a marked state (either using step back or reset), the cells that one had marked would remain marked, but that is no longer the case. I would like for this feature to be restored because I found it useful for marking conduit outputs.
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Re: Restore retroactive marking for LifeHistory in LifeViewer

Post by bubblegum » June 3rd, 2021, 7:02 pm

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Re: Restore retroactive marking for LifeHistory in LifeViewer

Post by ihatecorderships » June 4th, 2021, 12:09 am

bubblegum wrote:
June 3rd, 2021, 7:02 pm
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Sorry, I don't get it.
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Post by cgoler2 » June 4th, 2021, 9:43 am

It's xkcd.

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Re: Restore retroactive marking for LifeHistory in LifeViewer

Post by toroidalet » June 4th, 2021, 1:36 pm

ihatecorderships wrote:
June 4th, 2021, 12:09 am
Sorry, I don't get it.
The joke is that the "feature" here is quite obviously useless and awful, and it makes no sense for someone to use that feature in any way: before seeing the comic, how would you have imagined using said feature in a workflow? The specific example is also very ridiculous.

However, I do not think that retroactive marking is such a feature (it reminds me of when you make edits in Golly but you forget you aren't in generation 0 and so you reset and lose the edits). I think it could certainly be useful (not to me, but to people who edit conduits in LifeViewer).

However, I doubt that it merits a high priority on the overlord of LifeViewer's to-do-list or even its own thread.
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Re: Restore retroactive marking for LifeHistory in LifeViewer

Post by bubblegum » June 4th, 2021, 2:02 pm

actually, it was a bug, which i got irritated at and asked for it to be fixed
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Re: Restore retroactive marking for LifeHistory in LifeViewer

Post by rowett » June 4th, 2021, 3:58 pm

Actually it was just an unfinished implementation. When I added the Step Back feature many moons ago I never got round to having it cope with the LifeHistory extra states. It festered on the backlog for a long time since there always appeared to be more valuable or interesting things to implement.

As to the original request: I'll add it to the backlog...

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