Hi Carsten, On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Carsten Niehaus <[email protected]> wrote: > * I'd add some tooltips
The only place that tooltips can be added are the editor dockwidgets, but I think those are rather self-explanitory. If something is unclear in the editor interfaces I can add tooltips, but I think I'm too close to this project to see what needs clarification on those. Some of the menu items should have additional information available, but the only way to do that in Qt (that I'm aware of, at least) is through statusbar tips, but the avogadro mainwindow does not use a status bar. I don't see why not, though. I can enable the statusbar and add tips for the less obvious actions. Does anyone object to the status bar being shown, or know of a reason why it isn't already shown? > * I get a crash (read-error) when exiting Avogadro (Windows XP). I have no > idea how to get a backtrace in Windows. Hmm, it exits cleanly here every time. Does this happen every time you close Avogadro? If not, can you post steps to reproduce this crash? > * cannot select nm for the lenght (only angstrom and bohr). This was my fault -- I built an old version of the extension. I've rebuilt the latest code and pushed it to the same link: http://avogadro.openmolecules.net/nightly/win/crystallography-preview/Avogadro-1.1.0-win32.exe > * No matter which spacegroup I set I see no difference beside the > debug-message changing in the top left corner. What other changes would you like to see? Right now, setting the space group is really only useful for "Fill Unit Cell" operations. > * I think that you shouldn't use a this QComboBox for those spacegroups > ("Set Spacegroup"-menu). Right now it looks like this: > > 1: P 1 > 2: P -1 > 3: P 1 2 1 > > I don't like two things about this: First, in the UI it then reads P 1 (1), > IMHO it should also be 1: P 1 (consistency). Second: Why don't you write > > Cubic: P 1 > Cubic: P -1 > Cubic: P 1 2 1 > Orthorombic: ... > > Perhaps you could even add a second QComboBox with Triclinic, monoclic, > Orthorombic etc and then remove all other groups from the second combobox. > That would make the list *way* shorter. Perhaps its just me but I find that > list not exactly easy to parse :-) I fully agree, and this is something I've been thinking about. The enormous combobox is just a placeholder for something much cooler ;-) Geoff suggested this sort of interface a while ago: http://avogadro.openmolecules.net/wiki/CrystalMaker I'm not a big fan of that specific interface (what if you wanted to see all monoclinic spacegroups but don't know the centering type?), but I want to add a new selection dialog. I'm thinking a list widget that has all spacegroups in it and a set of combo boxes for selecting the lattice, centering, types of operations, etc. Changing the comboboxes would filter the list of spacegroups so that only the spacegroups that meet the criteria are displayed. This will probably take a while to write, though. Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar _______________________________________________ Avogadro-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/avogadro-devel
