Online Help Outline

This page is a working outline for the on-line documentation that will be available in ParaView III (both from the Help menu and from the Help button on the toolbar).

• List of sources: The documentation for this will come from the server manager XML (sources.xml). We will also need to move the per-widget documentation from the ParaView 2.6 GUI XML (Sources.xml).
  • For each source, we should provide a screenshot of the associated GUI.
• List of filters: Replace "sources" with "filters" in the above description.
• List of readers: Replace "sources" with "readers" in the first description.
  • Provide a list of the supported file types and a brief description of each. (Most of this is available in the last version of The ParaView Guide.)
• A help page per panel in the ParaView III GUI:
  • Pipeline Browser
  • Object Inspector
    • Properties
    • Display
    • Information
  • Element Inspector
  • Statistics View
  • Histogram View
  • XY Plot
  • Table View
  • Animation (not in yet)
• A help page per toolbar:
  • Main Controls (open, save, connect, disconnect, help)
  • Selection Controls (move, select)
  • Active Variable Controls (scalar bar visibility, active variable menu)
  • Representation (representation menu)
  • Custom Filter Controls (nothing there yet)
  • Undo / Redo Controls (undo and redo buttons)
  • VCR Controls (for animation)
  • Camera Controls (for center of rotation)
• A page about Custom Filters - how to create and manage them.
• A page about Lookmarks - how to create and manage them.

We just recently decided to separate lookmark functionality from custom filters.

--Eric 14:17, 24 Jan 2007 (EST)

• Settings Dialog:
  • Active View Properties
  • Application Settings (nothing there yet)