Volume Viewer Master Ticket

[Tom Goddard]

This project covers the volume display user interface (VolumeViewer in Chimera 1) and also the rendering of volume data. As described in the "volume data" ticket #27, the representation of the display state is part of the volume data project.

The current Volume Viewer user interface dialog in Chimera 1 has 17 panels any of which can be shown in a single dialog window, and it has its own set of 4 menus, implemented in about 4000 lines of Python/Tk. General Chimera 2 user interface discussions have focused on keep controls in a single main window that includes the graphics, and also having just one set of menus for the entire application. Those ideas are tentative. They would require substantial redesign of the volume user interface. The Chimera 1 user interface should also be substantially revamped based on the years of experience showing that some capabilities are seldom used. Other major new elements are needed -- for instance, users very frequently want to scroll through tens of open density maps and the current interface shows a histogram for each map limiting space, and only allows a set number to be displayed at one time (current default 3, although often changed by users to 6 or more).

The redesign of the volume user interface will need to wait on decisions about the UI framework and UI paradigm (project #19).

[Tom Goddard]

I have not yet worked on the volume data user interface. We do not have any wxWidgets framework yet to base this on.

[Tom Goddard]

No longer using "master" tickets. Instead use individual tickets for specific features.