GUI Behaviour Requests for beta

[bnlawrence]

This is a holding ticket for GUI wishlist items for beta

1. Save data as plotted.
2. Options plot window can (optionally) stay open while playing with plot
3. Hide button for str(field) at top.

Please add extras as comments on this ticket.

[leosaffin]

I have some possible suggestions for data selection. I had a test with some 3d data (time, lat, lon) and the slider selection can be a bit fiddly.

• After you drag a slider, it would help if you could then use the arrow keys to fine tune that selection (bind left/right to increase/decrease by one point)
• Similarly, if you select an individual value, then left/right could increase/decrease that selected value
• Clicking on the selected limits could enable a text entry where you could type a limit. This would be my preferred way of setting lat/lon limits
• Clicking somewhere by the variable to give a dropdown to select an individual value. I would use this for selecting individual times

More of a speculative idea, because it might be making the GUI too noisy, but it could be useful to be able to bind arrow keys to a variable (e.g. left/right for time or up/down for vertical levels), and automatically re-run the plot when you adjust the variable in this way. I made myself a script with pygame that does this. It's very basic, but I do use it often

[bnlawrence]

Closed it automagically before I saw this suggestion ... thanks @leosaffin, will see what we can do.