[Paraview] 3.14 RC2, display tab mismatch selected data in the pipeline

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

I have a fix for this pushed into git-next. Attached is the patch.
The fix will make it into 3.14.

Thanks,
Utkarsh

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit
<utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
> Ah. I can check it out.
>
> Utkarsh
>
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Paul Edwards <paul.m.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Utkarsh,
>>
>> That would be fine only the problem is that it *looks* like the object is
>> selected in the pipeline browser and you need to click away and back to the
>> object in order to actually select it (in order to use the object inspector
>> or change representation).
>>
>> Regards,
>> Paul
>>
>>
>> On 15 February 2012 16:10, Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I believe this was done intentionally. It was noted that people often
>>> need to change the "eye" status for some other  filter while editing
>>> parameters for another and then to it ended up being quite annoying
>>> that the "active" source changed when one clicked on the eye ball. I'm
>>> pretty positive this has been  the case since very early 3.* days.
>>>
>>> If there's consensus, one way or another, it's an easy fix.
>>>
>>> Utkarsh
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Paul Edwards <paul.m.edwards at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > This has caught me out many times - I never did work out the steps to
>>> > reproduce or I was going to report it!
>>> >
>>> > On 15 February 2012 10:54, Biddiscombe, John A. <biddisco at cscs.ch>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> How about left click on eye, toggles visibility and also activates
>>> >> panels,
>>> >> right click just toggle visibility for quick enable/disable
>>> >>
>>> >> Currently, right click pops up the context menu, but that could be left
>>> >> for the pipeline object itself and the eye handled separately.
>>> >>
>>> >> just thinking out loud
>>> >>
>>> >> JB
>>> >>
>>> >> -----Original Message-----
>>> >> From: paraview-bounces at paraview.org
>>> >> [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org]
>>> >> On Behalf Of Biddiscombe, John A.
>>> >> Sent: 15 February 2012 11:45
>>> >> To: Gena Bug; paraview at paraview.org
>>> >> Subject: Re: [Paraview] 3.14 RC2, display tab mismatch selected data in
>>> >> the pipeline
>>> >>
>>> >> +1
>>> >>
>>> >> It has caught me out a few times as I change the representation of the
>>> >> object I think I'm editing, but it's actually the wrong one.
>>> >>
>>> >> -----Original Message-----
>>> >> From: paraview-bounces at paraview.org
>>> >> [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org]
>>> >> On Behalf Of Gena Bug
>>> >> Sent: 15 February 2012 11:37
>>> >> To: paraview at paraview.org
>>> >> Subject: [Paraview] 3.14 RC2, display tab mismatch selected data in the
>>> >> pipeline
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi!
>>> >>
>>> >> I've noticed that clicking on 'eye' (make data visible) also selects
>>> >> data
>>> >> in the pipeline but doesn't update tabs (properties, display and info).
>>> >>
>>> >> Steps to reproduce:
>>> >> 1. open any data
>>> >> 2. clip it for example (in that case original data become invisible) 3.
>>> >> click on 'eye' to make original data visible (this action will also
>>> >> select
>>> >> data in the
>>> >> pipeline)
>>> >> 4. see the props, display and info tab -- they still contain data of
>>> >> previous selected data.
>>> >>
>>> >> P.S. Debian testing amd64, ParaView 3.14 RC2 installed from binaries
>>> >> from
>>> >> the site.
>>> >>
>>> >> -----|-
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