webvis settings

This tutorial will give an overview of the configuration settings available in webvis. A configuration in webvis is a collection of settings each consisting of a key-value pair and an optional attributes object describing type and possible values for a better UI representation.

The following list gives a few examples of the possible settings:

SettingString	Value	Description
language	[“en”, “de”, “fr”, …]	Language of the UI strings
coordSys	[“-yz”, “xy”, …]	Defines the front plane of the model for the UI elements.
selectionColor	[“FFFF00”, “55FF44”, …]	Color of selected parts in the 3D view.

Changing webvis settings

There are three different ways to configure webvis’ setting according to your needs:

Using the Configuration Tag

You can make configurations directly by placing them inside the <webvis-config> HTML-tag and defining the settings as key-value pairs in JSON string notation:

<webvis-config>
{
    "coordSys" : "-yz",
    "language" : "de"
}
</webvis-config>

WebVis will also look for a config file called “config.json” in the folder of the webvis.js file.

Using the API

By placing the following lines in a script tag in the body of the HTML document you can change the settings using the webvis API:

webvis.changeSetting("coordSys", "-yz");
webvis.changeSetting("language", "de");

You can edit the configuration using the changeSetting function. Optionally, a third parameter with an attributes object can be used to provide additional data.

Importing and Exporting a Configuration

You can import a configuration using the function importConfig taking a key-value-based configuration object as a parameter.

var config =
{
    coordSys : "-yz",
    language : "de"
};
webvis.importConfig(config);

In a similar way you can export the configuration as an object by calling:

var config = webvis.exportConfig();