#3017 BLOC Trial-3: UI for Measure Activity that has the standard toolbar as UI

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#3017: UI for Measure Activity that has the standard toolbar as UI
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  Reporter:  arjs              |       Owner:  arjs     
      Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  new      
  Priority:  blocker           |   Milestone:  Trial-3  
 Component:  measure-activity  |     Version:           
Resolution:                    |    Keywords:  ui, icons
  Verified:  0                 |  
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Comment(by arjs):

 >  6. Plate/pause toggle button.  When in live mode, this button will
 toggle between >a still of the current waveform and live updating.  When a
 graph for a previous log >is shown, this should appear as a play button
 icon.  Clicking play will return to >live mode from log mode.  This
 eliminates the need for a separate toggle (with >redundant icons) for this
 purpose.
 >  7. Record/stop toggle button.  This one is straightforward.  Clicking
 will >initiate a recording, and pressing stop will end it.  I imagine that
 we'll want to >make many of the other buttons insensitive when recording,
 unless you'll support >changing them while recording.  In particular, the
 interval menu and the play/pause >button should be insensitive.  We may
 want another clear visual way to indicate that >recording is in progress
 too.


 Ok so we do have the play/resume button which helps us resume into real-
 time waveform when we have a waveform being displayed. And then we have a
 button to start/stop recording. But when we are in real time mode, how do
 you propose we switch from real-time waveform to log ?


 >  11. When in log mode, clicking (or click-dragging) within the graph
 should reveal >a vertical line (like a playback head) whcih reports values
 from the data in (time, >value) pairs.  This would hide if dragged
 offscreen or upon returning to live mode.

 This might not be possible for Trial-3, but it is a great idea and I will
 look into it soon.


 >  12. This area at the left, free of controls, can become a history of
 logs within >the Measure session.  Clicking on a log directly will switch
 to log mode and show >its corresponding graph.  Clicking play again would
 return to live mode.


 I am thinking that maybe this doesn't confirm to the general idea that we
 have followed regarding saving work in journal. For example, consider
 Write activity. We write many documents (and they get saved into the
 journal) but we don't display list of recently made documents in any area
 within Write activity. Same for other activities - paint etc. Any
 particular reason why  you think we should do this for Measure ?


 >  14. The view toolbar will contain:  zoom in, zoom out, show/hide info
 toggle >button, fullscreen toggle button.

 8 is the same thing as zoomin/zoomout so we don't need these buttons. This
 leaves us with only show_details hide_details buttons . Maybe we should
 try and fit them somwhere here ?



 > Let me know what you think, and I'll start working on exporting the
 icons.  >Reassign this back to me with any comments.

 1,2,3,4 and 8 are final and would definitely need icons.


 Have to run for class right now! but will definitely look into other
 comments on this ticket today. Also, I would be rethinking about re-
 organizing the buttons into the various toolbars and appropriate names for
 the toolbar heads.

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