{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nengo/nengo_gui/issues/578","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nengo/nengo_gui/issues/578/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nengo/nengo_gui/issues/578/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nengo/nengo_gui/issues/578/events","html_url":"https://github.com/nengo/nengo_gui/issues/578","id":111743594,"number":578,"title":"Purpose of `rebuild_components` in netgraph.py","user":{"login":"Seanny123","id":1918825,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1918825?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Seanny123","html_url":"https://github.com/Seanny123","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Seanny123/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Seanny123/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Seanny123/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Seanny123/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Seanny123/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Seanny123/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Seanny123/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Seanny123/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Seanny123/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nengo/nengo_gui/labels/enhancement","name":"enhancement","color":"d4c5f9"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-10-16T02:04:06Z","updated_at":"2015-10-16T02:04:06Z","closed_at":null,"body":"What's the point of this variable?\r\nhttps://github.com/nengo/nengo_gui/blob/master/nengo_gui/components/netgraph.py#L163\r\n\r\nWhile we're on the topic of rebuilding, I'm extremely confused by the comment on this line:\r\nhttps://github.com/nengo/nengo_gui/blob/master/nengo_gui/components/netgraph.py#L126\r\n\r\nEvery deleted object will be recreated? What does that mean?\r\n\r\nThis seems especially weird, since `rebuilt_objects` only seems to be being used to inform the client-side JavaScript of what's to be deleted.\r\n\r\n@tcstewar you seem to be the person who wrote this code. If you could explain to me what's going on, I can make the necessary changes.\r\n"}}