[Paraview] Indication of delay between interactive and still render?

[Moreland, Kenneth]

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.

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.

-Ken


On 6/24/10 6:36 PM, "Berk Geveci" <berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:

Oo oo I like 3. Even better the Mac-startup-progress-wheel thingy.

-berk

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:31 PM, David Thompson <dcthomp at sandia.gov> wrote:
That is really a good point. The more I use it, the more I realize
this is absolutely essential. But how ? :). What could serve as a good
indication?

1. Different colors on the border surrounding the pane (but this competes with the red/blue indicating which pane is "Active")
2. An LED-like glyph in the pane's title bar?
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. :-)

        David


On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov> wrote:
I just got a chance to try out the new feature that pauses for 2 seconds
between the last interactive render and the still render to give you a
chance to make further movements
(http://paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=10232).  Totally cool.

One thing I noticed though is that there is no indication of an intentional
pause.  Is there a subtle way to let the user know when the interface is
pausing and when it is busy rendering?  Or is it fine the way it is?

-Ken

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