I think there is a problem in the specification of the Ingredient::Preload and
-Unload actions.
It is fine for preloading and unloading of content data for the presentation
system of an engine. It is also the only possibility to prepare objects in
advance. We use this to determine the position of visible objects in the
display stack.
For objects with content data like Bitmap or Text this works fine. But the
second point in the "Provision of use" of both actions states:
"The Content attrobute of the target Ingredient shall be different from Null"
This means that the actions can not be targeted to (visible) objects like
Rectangles or Hotspots which have no content data.
We think that the actions, as they are now, are quite useless if they can
only be targeted to objects with content data.
Therefore, I propose to remove the second part of each note of both actions.
What do you think?
Best regards,
Andreas
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