On 11/04/2014 20:49, Luisa Pires wrote:
Willem,
I agree, if the graph is red, the graph in the button should be red as
well. I'm attaching the new version.
Regarding the last three..if they work kind of as options of data
visualization, with more or less detail, within the same
function/graph, maybe they shouldn't be three separated buttons,
coexisting in the same level with other ones that control completely
different graphs.
If the first one has to be activated for the other two to work, maybe
these two have to be bellow it's level of hierarchy. My first thought
was to suggest making them only one button, which would have three
stages: on the first click, the ceiling, on the second click, the
ceiling with tissue differentiation and on the third, the more
conservative ceiling with increments of 3m at a time.
The down side is, that solution would demand two extra clicks whenever
a diver wanted to view the conservative ceiling, for example.So, I'd
like to suggest only one button, that would activate the ceiling
graph, with two extra smaller buttons related to it, that would add 1-
the tissue and 2-the conservative graph, both on top of the ceiling
graph. Mybe they could be activated at the same time, and the graph
would contain the ceiling and these two additional information, all
overlayed.
I hope I could explain myself. What do you think?
Luisa
2014-04-11 2:32 GMT-03:00 Willem Ferguson
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<mailto:[email protected]>>:
Luisa,
I attach 3 screenshots of a dive. The red line at the bottom is
the graph of heart rate, the one that should be en/disabled by the
button you spoke about. Maybe the graph on your button may be red
as well, since it is in red on the dive profile?
The first attached image, ceiling.png: This is when the button
with the diver and the up-arrow is activated. The ceiling is shown
in green. This graph is actually a summary of the ceilings in a
number of body tissues.
A ceiling at any point along the dive is virtual ceiling in the
sense that is is not physical like a cave roof. But it is real in
the sense that if the diver penetrated the ceiling at that point
in time, he/she is likely to injure him/herself because of the
large amount of nitrogen that has been accumulated in the body
because of the high water pressures during the dive. I hope this
one-sentence explanation makes sense.
The second one tissues.png. This is when your mystery button is
activated. This is when the ceiling is shown, differentiating
between the different tissues that are saturated with nitrogen.
This is the button that you do not understand that you asked about
in your mail.
The third one 3m.png, shown the same information, but with
increments of 3m at a time. This is when your stepwise button is
activated. Obeying this ceiling is more conservative , hence
safer, than obeying the smooth ceiling.
The last three buttons work as a unit. If the first one is not
activated, then the other two have no effect. Therefore the
proposal that these three buttons have an appearance that the user
can immdediately inderstand that these three work as a unit. My
proposal was for each of them to have a standardised up-arrow like
you used previously, and that they have some green characteristic
because of the ceiling that is indicated in green on the dive
profile. Does this make sense at all?
Kind regards,
willem
Luisa,
Thank you for your careful thoughts. I think Tomaz and Dirk need to
comment, as this is not my area of expertise whatsoever. The most simple
solution would be to ensure that each of the three ceiling buttons work
independently. In the previous version of Subsurface, there were three
preset radio buttons for ceilings on the preferences panel. In essence,
activating a button on the current toolbar is like launching the program
with a different set of preset radio buttons on the preferences panel.
Yet, I must say I find your suggestion very appealing of reducing the
number of buttons on the present toolbar if it could be done in an
efficient way.
Kind regards,
willemf
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