View source for Putting the Selection Inspector to rest

This document provides a design for removing the '''Selection Inspector''' and upgrading the '''Find Data Dialog''' to provide all capabilities currently provided by '''Selection Inspector'''.

=User Interface=

[[File:FindDataRefactoring.png]]

* The '''Selection Inspector''' will be removed from the ParaView application in its entirety.
* The '''Find Data Dialog''' will be updated as shown in the mock-up above. It is a non-modal dialog with ability to be docked in the UI (possibly).
* There are 4 components to this dialog:
** Creating/Defining the query/selection.
** Viewing the currently selected elements.
** Controlling the ''display'' parameters for the showing the selection in the active view.
** Follow-on actions i.e. logical next steps after making a new selection e.g. extract selection, etc.

==Create Selection==
* This remains same unchanged from the '''Find Data Dialog''' in 4.0 release, for the most part. User selects the data-producer and type of elements to select, then defines the selection criteria and then hits "Update Selection".
* New option will be added to make a selection given a location.

==Current Selection==
* This component always shows the active selection irrespective of how the selection was made i.e. using the dialog, or selection mechanisms provided by the views e.g. surface selection in 3D View, or row selection in Spreadsheet View.
* The '''Current Selection''' label is updated to indicate which data-producer:output-port is currently selected.
* Users can change '''Showing selected''' combo-box to view the selected cells or points.
* One of the major differences between this design and 4.0 release is that we will now support users to hightlight rows in this spreadsheet (by clicking on them). As rows are hightlighted, the '''Create Selection''' section will be updated to create a new query for selecting the hightlighted rows. Users can then hit '''Update Selection''' to create a new selection with only rows that highlighted. This provides a mechanism to ''edit'' a selection no matter how it was created.

==Selection Display Properties==
* These control the display properties for the selection in the active view.
* Any change to the selection color or label text properties i.e. label color, font, etc., are saved in settings so that they will be used as the default next time.

==Follow-on Actions==

* These remain unchanged from before.