Peter Hunter wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > My preference is for Tabs but you could still keep the title bar – > just use a shorter one (say half the width of the pane) and put the > tabs after that. > It is important to be able to preserve the layout of windows and which > traces are displayed so that you can get back quickly to a > configuration you've set up. It also would allow us to create good > default setups to suit particular models in the repository. Hi Peter,
I have asked the question as for what approach to use at the CellML meeting on Monday, and after some discussion, there was unanimous agreement that the drop-down combo-box approach would be the best (this decision included Poul, Jonna, and David Cumin). There were several main reasons given at the meeting for the combo-box approach: 1) With tabs, the screen will become too cluttered, and you won't be able to tell which graph is which. However, with combo-box approach, each graph will have its own line. 2) The combo-box approach allows there to be one list of graphs shared for all graph panels. This means that a graph is not tied to a particular panel, and for example, you can set up a two voltage vs time graphs, and show them side-by-side, and then you can show the sequentially while keeping a current vs time graph at the bottom. If we tried to do this with tabs, creating a tab in one panel would have to cause the creation of the tab in all panels, which is unintuitive, and would further compound the cluttering problem. Are you happy to go with this decision? Regarding the setups for a model, there is a minor UI inconsistency here, because PCEnv adopts a many to many relationship between models and graph panels (otherwise you wouldn't, for example, be able to compare two model runs on the same set of axes). However, this conflicts with the idea of providing the layout for the graph panels in the model (because you could have two models open, which could provide conflicting information for how to lay out the same graph panels). We could work around this by setting the layout when a model is first loaded, but not changing it on subsequent model changes (otherwise, we would be repeatedly destroying a user's changes to the layout as they switch back and forwards between models). > > I’m still inclined to tab the whole RHS window (set of panes) - maybe > as well as Tabs in individual panes? An example of where this would be > useful is that when you have a combined electrophysiology and signal > transduction model and want to display voltages, currents, etc v time > in one window and the signal transduction pathways laid out in SVG in > another window. I think this wouldn't be too hard to implement, although the obvious way to do it might hit some performance issues, as resizing would require a significant number of redraws to take place. > > BTW, in the graphing window if you set time as x-variable then all > other created traces for that pane should default to time (since it > doesn’t make sense to display any other variable along a time axis). I think this can be done fairly simply, but the default would have to happen after the model has been selected (because it is possible that you might plot time from one model against time from a different model, and we cannot be certain as to which variable is time in the second model, as the word 'time' doesn't have any special meaning in CellML). Best regards, Andrew _______________________________________________ cellml-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://www.cellml.org/mailman/listinfo/cellml-discussion
