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Dion Moult 89bb3074de ifcviewer-web: JavaScript scripting API (camera, selection, visibility, colour)
Give host pages a real API over the web viewer, not just "embed it and listen
for picks": read/set the camera, read/set multi-selection, enumerate every
object with its IFC identity, drive per-object visibility, and override
object colours.

The wasm boundary keeps to object_ids (u32 arrays marshalled through the heap,
with an "ask twice" convention on the getters); web/ifcviewer.js layers IFC
GlobalId resolution on top, from the element table getObjects() fetches. Every
id-taking call accepts an objectId, a GlobalId, or an element object.

Colour override needed no new mechanism: color_override_rgba8 was already
plumbed through the sidecar, the instance SSBO, the WGSL shader and the
opaque/transparent cull classifier, but nothing ever wrote a non-zero value
into it. setObjectsColor is the missing writer, which is why an alpha below 255
correctly reclassifies the instance into the transparent pass.

Two bugs surfaced while wiring this up:

- wgpu_initialized_ was only ever set by the Qt desktop host, so on web every
  upload guarded on it was a silent no-op — including the pre-existing
  recomposeAndUploadModel that federation transforms depend on. The core now
  latches it in its own web init.

- The demo pages were copied into the build dir by a POST_BUILD command on the
  wasm target, so they only refreshed when the wasm itself relinked; editing a
  page left a stale copy that the dev server (and the Playwright suite) kept
  serving. Each page now has its own copy rule with a real dependency, and
  sample.ifcview is a LINK_DEPENDS so regenerating it forces a relink.

applyCachedModel also now keeps the element metadata it already parses on the
path-based load (it was being dropped), so the embedded sample has GUIDs and
the demo works with no file to pick.

The sample model was three coincident cubes, which made per-object hide and
colour look like no-ops — whatever you hid was still drawn by the box behind
it. make_sample.py regenerates it as a slab, a wall and a beam in distinct
places, so the fixture is reproducible rather than an opaque blob.

Demoed by web/scripting.html (linked from the index; viewer is on
window.viewer) and covered by tests/scripting.spec.mjs — 6 cases against a real
GPU, asserting visibility and colour at the pixels, not just at the API.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-24 15:42:44 +10:00
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