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

2010-06-25 Thread David Thompson
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 :). Well, then we'll have to come up with some subtle psychological twist

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

2010-06-25 Thread Utkarsh Ayachit
That's neat idea...let's stick with that. I've added a feature request: http://paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=10893 Utkarsh On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 2:56 AM, David Thompson dcth...@speakeasy.net wrote: All are good suggestions but won't it confuse people into thinking that paraview is busy

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

2010-06-25 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
I actually think 3 is a good idea, too. Except you may want to put it in the pane's title bar. I also like 2, but I would augment it such that the LED starts out bright and then dims. It's timed so that the LED is all the way dim the render starts. It has the same effect as a spinning thing

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

2010-06-24 Thread Utkarsh Ayachit
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? Utkarsh On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Moreland, Kenneth kmo...@sandia.gov wrote: I just got a chance to try out the new feature that pauses

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

2010-06-24 Thread David Thompson
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

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

2010-06-24 Thread Berk Geveci
Oo oo I like 3. Even better the Mac-startup-progress-wheel thingy. -berk On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:31 PM, David Thompson dcth...@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

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

2010-06-24 Thread Marcus D. Hanwell
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:31 PM, David Thompson dcth...@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

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

2010-06-24 Thread Sebastien Jourdain
Me too but as a count down... On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell marcus.hanw...@kitware.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:31 PM, David Thompson dcth...@sandia.gov wrote: That is really a good point. The more I use it, the more I realize this is absolutely essential. But how

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

2010-06-24 Thread 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

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

2010-06-22 Thread Moreland, Kenneth
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