Projects:ARRA:miAnnotation:Feedback

Feedback from Ron 08/24/11

• in general: Ron is pleased with the top-level things
• text display in viewers does not work for Ron
  • problem annotations are obstructing the images: this should NOT be the case
  • fonts ugly
  • text gets in the way of things you want to see
  • different direction needed: show information in left bottom corner
    • two kinds of information
      • software wants to show information (push)
      • user requests information (pull)
    • in viewers: minimal information
    • in bottom left corner of Slicer GUI: medium details
    • somewhere else: full details
    • cdash example: way of not to do it -> important information is covered by annotations
    • ohloh example: good example -> first minimal, then under cursor more details when probing
      • should be the way to go for the bottom left of Slicer GUI
  • possible solutions: we assign names (F1,F2,F3 for Fiducials, M1,M2,M3 for measurements, R1,R2... B1,B2) and descriptions
    • name appears in viewers
    • description in bottom lower left
      • on roll-over in viewers, show description in bottom left: display only
    • in annotation module: full details
• get rid of text annotation
• get rid of bidimensional annotation
• just three types: fiducials, measurements (ruler), ROIs
  • ROI needs a name in the future: requires infrastructure change -> in the future
• for RSNA: name+description in bottom lower left, anything else should be deferred
• possible problem: mouse over event on vtk widgets might not be easily realizable

• ruler: ticks only in 2D but centimeters
• handles for all annotations zooming behavior: should be like Slicer3
• sliders in fiducial properties jumps weird
• property links between elements of widgets
• size presets: medium is actual size, small and large presets