aardgoose
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4 years ago Re highlighting, you have hit a bug. It should and used to grey out the unselected passages. I reworked the highlighting which had become very ugly and obviously broke something in the process. I'll fix that. Incidentally double clicking on a section name cuts that section out to give a smaller model to work with, you can reload the original clicking the name at the top of the selection list.
Re: tree vs list. It's been largely driven by 1: something that works on phones, 2: limiting the amount of memory etc used in dom objects to create a tree, I'll explore making a lazy loading tree setup as an alternate mode. The early issues I had with memory have been reduced a lot after getting a few changes upstreamed in three.js.
I'll have a look at station selection in aven. You can select stations in the graphic display, for instance with 'shading by distance'. Well - you could apart from on the demo version which I upgraded to the latest Three.js which broke it. One liner fix.
In that mode, right click selects a station to measure passage distance from (and shades legs by distance from that point (shortest survey distance, not straightline distance) and left click selects station to show distance to.
The selection window would better be done as a tree (maybe with some extra rolling-up), rather than this slide to the left as you go down the sub directories. It would give a more stable view of the points of interest.
The highlight box (in blue) and zooming is nice. But the legs and passage could be highlighted with a different select colour to bring it out.
Measuring distances in survex-aven is done by being able to select an individual station than then hovering cursor over other parts of the tree. You could have each of these other cursor-over parts get highlighted, but only receive the box and the zooming treatment when clicked on.
Can you select nodes from the graphics window?