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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>I actually think 3 is a good idea, too. Except you may want to put it in the pane’s title bar. I also like 2, but I would augment it such that the LED starts out bright and then dims. It’s timed so that the LED is all the way dim the render starts. It has the same effect as a spinning thing or progress bar, but would probably be less distracting.<BR>
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A nice feature might also be that when you click the whatever-it-is, the render starts immediately. A tooltip that could be active even when the whatever-it-is is not doing anything could be helpful in explaining what it is for.<BR>
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On 6/24/10 6:36 PM, "Berk Geveci" <<a href="berk.geveci@kitware.com">berk.geveci@kitware.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Oo oo I like 3. Even better the Mac-startup-progress-wheel thingy.<BR>
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On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:31 PM, David Thompson <<a href="dcthomp@sandia.gov">dcthomp@sandia.gov</a>> wrote:<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>That is really a good point. The more I use it, the more I realize<BR>
this is absolutely essential. But how ? :). What could serve as a good<BR>
indication?<BR>
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1. Different colors on the border surrounding the pane (but this competes with the red/blue indicating which pane is "Active")<BR>
2. An LED-like glyph in the pane's title bar?<BR>
3. A small overlay in one corner of the pane? (Ken's favorite: a pie chart showing either time remaining before a still render or time spent waiting for a still render to finish. :-)<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Moreland, Kenneth <<a href="kmorel@sandia.gov">kmorel@sandia.gov</a>> wrote:<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>I just got a chance to try out the new feature that pauses for 2 seconds<BR>
between the last interactive render and the still render to give you a<BR>
chance to make further movements<BR>
(<a href="http://paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=10232">http://paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=10232</a>). Totally cool.<BR>
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One thing I noticed though is that there is no indication of an intentional<BR>
pause. Is there a subtle way to let the user know when the interface is<BR>
pausing and when it is busy rendering? Or is it fine the way it is?<BR>
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-Ken<BR>
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