> 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 to let people know. Perhaps the overlay could be of a prone person who, after 2 seconds, stands up and performs calisthenics until the still render is complete. ;-) Or more seriously, the overlay could be present during all interactive rendering and just start "counting down" (I still prefer a clock-like wedge to a countdown, especially given that it's a short 2-second interval) when the mouse is released. That way the overlay's presence indicates interactive rendering, a modified form would indicate the still rendering is being performed, and its absence indicates that the image is a completed still rendering. David > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Sebastien Jourdain > <sebastien.jourd...@kitware.com> wrote: >> 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 ? :). 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 <kmo...@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? 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