Last ViewScene improvements for ZZZ

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SCIRun is a Problem Solving Environment, for modeling, simulation and visualization of scientific problems. This is version 5, the upgraded version of SCIRun v4.

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Last ViewScene improvements for ZZZ #2393

Closed dcwhite closed 2 years ago

dcwhite commented 2 years ago

Works much better now. Windows don't pop up unless you hover for a second. They show up in a usable location. Just a few things not completely working:

"Look down axis" menu didn't do anything when I tested it.
It would be helpful for the lighting menu to have a reset button. If you screw up the values now it's hard to get them back to something usable.
It would be helpful if the scale bar menu had a color option. The bar is currently white, which is not visible on a white background.

Originally posted by @Sumientra in https://github.com/SCIInstitute/SCIRun/issues/2390#issuecomment-1197603885

jab0707 commented 2 years ago

the look down axis seems to work for me, but only when I click the button after selecting which axes to look down etc

jab0707 commented 2 years ago

it would be helpful to have a "close all popups" button somewhere because occasionally they still get stuck open, and sometimes such that they cover the widget so that there is no way to get them to close

dcwhite commented 2 years ago

If you click the render window interior the popups should all close. But sometimes they pop back up. With the latest code this should not happen anymore though.

dcwhite commented 2 years ago

Combine 3 secondary light buttons:

[ ] on/off is now a enable toggle
[ ] button will switch on/off the enabled lights

Saves 2 button spots.

dcwhite commented 2 years ago

New tab in preferences for render options

[x] Move 2 existing preferences
[x] Expose 2 pop-up timing parameters
[ ] Investigate list widget for defining order of buttons
[ ] Add menu to hide/show each button
[x] Consider additional bars--how many? @jessdtate

jessdtate commented 2 years ago

Here is an idea for some toolbar categories:

main:

autoview
object selection
snap to axis
lock view
screenshot
autorotate
render options:
scene color
orientation glyph
clipping
fog
materials
headlight
secondary light
scale bar
Advanced:
Grouping
mouse controls
reporting

dcwhite commented 2 years ago

I've rearranged the toolbars into three, all movable; consolidated the 3 light buttons into 1; and implemented a gray-scale color option for the scalebar which is saved in the network file. Those will go into beta.ZZZ. For release after next (full 5.0) will be the additional toolbar config ideas, the undo/redo for the material options (along with every other screen, I hope), the look-down improvement, and the light toggle button improvement.