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

[Sebastien Jourdain]

Me too but as a count down...

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell
<marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
> 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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