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

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

All are good suggestions but won't it confuse people into thinking
that paraview is busy doing something which may result in people
waiting to interact until the overlay disappears which till have
totally reverse effect :).

Utkarsh

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Sebastien Jourdain
<sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com> wrote:
> 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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