Hello, I would like to suggest an improvement, I looked for a workaround to my problem without finding. Like many people, the images I process get automatic names from the acquisition software by incrementing a number. Images are stored in separate folders for each measurement day.
When I want to compare images from different days, say 2011-02-14/image1 and 2011-02-15/image1, there is no visual indication to identify what day of imaging I'm looking at, as both window title and data navigator display the same name "image1". I have to organize very well my screen to separate the images of different dates or take some notes on paper, but and after some iterations applying analysis tools the screen gets inevitably confused and I loose track of which is which. One might say to use metadata to check the image date, but : 1) this requires to open the metadata window for each opened image and keep the windows organised so that the metadata are actually in front of their respective images, involving even more manual work of arranging windows ; 2) the metadata are not present in all formats, specially when data has been pre-processed by colleagues using other software and saved in the format they liked most, crunching some information in the conversion. Therefore I would like to suggest that either the window titles or the data navigator could give some indication of the directory, ideally favouring the display of the end of the path followed by the name (the beginning of the path is likely to be useless because common to all images, reducing the signal to noise ratio by displaying a lot of meaningless header like /home/joe/work/lab/stm/... or C:\Documents and settings\..., while consuming too much of space in the title bar, so that the relevant part in the end would be often cut short by the panel or window size before reaching the name). Another possibility would be that, like does the document navigator, the metadata navigator could get instant updates when changing the focus. This way one could keep the metadata window in a corner of the screen and check the information when needed. This approach of giving a window the ability of live status updates looks to me a relevant option used by many other quality software. I understand that there exist valid reasons for the current behaviour of the metadata navigator so I do not ask to replace the behaviour, rather suggest to allow both by a checkbox. Maybe there is already a way to achieve the same effect but I did not find. I hope these ideas are useful and thank the developers anyway for their dedicated work. Jérôme Borme ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Gwyddion-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gwyddion-users
