Adding replaceElement routine and event so Timeline can avoid removing and adding layers and PI and SelectionController can avoid deselecting and reselecting the element.

Signed-off-by: Nivesh Rajbhandari <mqg734@motorola.com>

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/js/helper-classes/3D/draw-utils.js b/js/helper-classes/3D/draw-utils.js
index c7c1c08d..a5428ea3 100755
--- a/js/helper-classes/3D/draw-utils.js
+++ b/js/helper-classes/3D/draw-utils.js
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ var DrawUtils = exports.DrawUtils = Montage.create(Component, {
             this.eventManager.addEventListener("elementsRemoved", this, false);
             this.eventManager.addEventListener("elementChange", this, false);
             this.eventManager.addEventListener("closeDocument", this, false);
+            this.eventManager.addEventListener("elementReplaced", this, false);
                 }
         },
 
@@ -170,13 +171,41 @@ var DrawUtils = exports.DrawUtils = Montage.create(Component, {
                     this.removeElement(element);
                 }, this);
             } else {
-                this.removeElement(elements._element || elements);
+                this.removeElement(elements);
             }
 
             this.drawWorkingPlane();
         }
     },
 
+    handleElementReplaced: {
+        value: function(event) {
+            var oldElement = event.detail.data.oldChild;
+            var newElement = event.detail.data.newChild;
+
+            // check if we already know about this object
+            var n = this._eltArray.length,
+                plane;
+            for (var i=0;  i<n;  i++) {
+                if (oldElement === this._eltArray[i]) {
+                    this._eltArray[i] = newElement;
+                    plane = this._planesArray[i];
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+
+            if(!plane) {
+                this._eltArray.push( newElement );
+                plane = Object.create(this.ElementPlanes, {});
+                this._planesArray.push( plane );
+            }
+
+            plane.setElement( newElement );
+            plane.init();
+            newElement.elementModel.props3D.elementPlane = plane;
+        }
+    },
+
     _shouldUpdatePlanes: {
         value: function(props) {
             if(!props) {