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10 years ago Original comment thread migrated from bugzilla
at 2011-09-03 00:23:43 Oleg Smirnov replied:
See bug 812 for the initial discussion.
We currently have two different schemes for selecting the Vells to be plotted -- menu items in the Collection Plotter, and a data element selector window in the Result Plotter. This is confusing, so it would be good to settle on a single unified scheme, e.g. use the popup window for both plotters.
Related to this is the "0, 1, 2, 3" designation in the Collections Plotter. This is very unhelpful, and the information to deduce that these numbers are actually the [0,0], [0,1], [1,0] and [1,1] elements is available in the result object -- after all, the Result Plotter plugin does manage to figure this out!
Finally, since 99.99% percent of the time we're displaying either a 2x2 matrix, or else a 2-vector, or else a 3-vector, I propose a "quick-select" scheme to cover these three cases. This would be a 2x2 matrix of [or a row of 2 or 3] small, square QToolButtons which would be used to switch between the displayed Vells with a single click (and which would also provide a visual indication of which Vells is being displayed). There's enough empty real estate for this in the bottom right corner of the Collections Plotter. As for the Result Plotter, you could put it in vaguely the same place, to the right of the history slider (which is virtually always visible), or else underneath the right color bar (thus making the color bar a bit shorter).
Anyway, something to discuss in Portugal (as if we didn't have enough...) I'll cc Jan on this since he loves to think about plotters too.
at 2011-09-03 00:25:08 Oleg Smirnov replied:
Just to be clear: the quick-select buttons I propose would be complementary to the Data element selector window. The latter would still be available via the right-click menu.
at 2011-09-03 00:23:43 Oleg Smirnov reported:
Need to review the Vells selector GUI in the various plotters