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

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

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. :-)
>
> You beat me to it - I was just writing we could add a small overlay in a
corner of the display to give the user a subtle visual cue. Option 3 gets my
vote too ;-)

Marcus

 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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