Gotcha! Unexpected order of sketchRegions for concentric shapes

blackslate

To see a demo of this issue, please visit my Region Order Test document and double-click on the Region Order Test feature to open the dialog and show debug feedback.

You should see a set of concentric circles. The outermost circle is MAGENTA. However, it is the second region returned by...

    evaluateQuery(context, qSketchRegion(id + "sketch1"))

... and not the last, even though the circle sketches were drawn from the inside out. If you deselect the "Inside out?" button in the feature dialog, you will see that now it is the innermost circle that becomes MAGENTA.

It's not just a circle thing. It happens with rectangles too. You can test it.

Why is the last region that is sketched placed second in the array returned by evaluateQuery? Is this a bug or a feature that I can depend on?

NeilCooke

I would not rely on the order the regions were created. 

NeilCooke

I would not rely on the order the regions were created. 

blackslate

In that case, is there a way for me to sort the regions by the diameter of the circles?

NeilCooke

If they are just circles then you could find the bounding box of each region (evBox3d) or if you just want the largest you could combine the query with qLargest