[Paraview-developers] Changes coming to ParaView's color legend

[Mathieu Westphal]

That looks good !
Good luck with baseline generation !

Regards,

Mathieu Westphal

On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Cory Quammen <cory.quammen at kitware.com>
wrote:

> For a small preview of how the new implementation compares to the
> current one, please see the attached screenshots of the current and
> new color legend. The files ending in "Current.png" are from ParaView
> 5.1, while files ending in "New.png" are from the new color legend not
> yet in ParaView.
>
> - Cory
>
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Cory Quammen <cory.quammen at kitware.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > There are a number of issues with ParaView's current color legend.
> > Here are a few:
> >
> > http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=15875
> > http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=16000
> > http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=15379
> > http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=15074
> > http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=15864
> > http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=15862
> > http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=15851
> > http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=15637
> > http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=15319
> > http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=14980
> > http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=15049
> > http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=14146
> >
> > You get the idea...
> >
> > To address most of these issues and to make future fixes hopefully
> > more straightforward, I have been working on a new implementation of
> > ParaView's color legend. Key improvements in the implementation
> > include:
> >
> > - numerous bug fixes
> > - ability to specify precisely the values to label
> > - improved automatic "human-readable" values for the tick labels
> > - font size controls that offer precise control over font properties.
> > Size can be arbtitrary, for exampld
> > - precise control over the color bar thickness
> > - uses VTK's charts API, so making future improvements to the scalar
> > bar is easier than in the current implementation
> >
> > While the color legend will look similar to the current color legend,
> > you will likely see some differences once this change lands in master.
> > Any baseline image used by testing infrastructure for ParaView or
> > ParaView-based applications with a color legend will probably need to
> > be updated.
> >
> > Note that these changes are in ParaView only and do not affect the
> > scalar bars in VTK.
> >
> > I plan to put together a blog post on the Kitware web site showing off
> > the new color legend in the near future. In the mean time, please let
> > me know if you have any questions or concerns.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Cory
> >
> >
> > --
> > Cory Quammen
> > R&D Engineer
> > Kitware, Inc.
>
>
>
> --
> Cory Quammen
> R&D Engineer
> Kitware, Inc.
>
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