[Paraview] auto generated line edits in the display panel

[Burlen Loring]

Hi Guys, this one seems to have fallen through the cracks . at least as 
of 3.98.1

0013887 <http://paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=13887> 	TBD 	incorrect 
functionality 	backlog 	spurious render triggered from auto-generated 
line edits in display panel 	
	2013-02-17


On 10/20/2012 7:51 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
> I agree this is an issue. I think in the past for display properties
> we relived on editingFinished(), I believe that could be a reasonable
> choice still for properties under the display "Section". For the
> non-display section, we could still use the current signal, or even if
> we change that to editingFinished(), I wonder if that'd be a major
> issue. Kyle?
>
> Utkarsh
>
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 9:21 PM, burlen <burlen.loring at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm finding it at times problematic when making changes to line edits in the
>> auto generated display properties panel, that the individual parts of the
>> change triggers a render. For example, if I were to change a parameter from
>> "1" to "0.005" there are 5 renders triggered (0, 0., 0.0, 0.00, 0.005). Of
>> course it's no big deal when working locally with small data but it can be
>> problematic when rendering takes along time. In other cases the intermediate
>> values sent (eg the 4 values 0  to 0.00) are invalid and the render produces
>> either nothing or the incorrect results until the final value is ready.
>>
>> At the same time it seems that in other cases it's a desirable thing for the
>> auto-generated panels to respond immediately to changes for example to make
>> apply button green. So I'm wondering, would it be possible to control this
>> behavior with an xml attribute? for example by connecting to one or the
>> other of the editingFinished or texteEdited signals? Or perhaps for the
>> generation code to select which signal to connect to depending on the
>> context?
>>
>> Since the properties panel is under development I thought it might be a good
>> time to suggest such a change (-:
>>
>> Burlen
>>
>>
>>
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