driving window example

[xulman]

When attempting to have synchronized views on the same data in both Mastodon and sciview, there was this concept of a driving window in Mastodon that dictated what is the current time point were are looking at in sciview, the deal is that the driving window is the one from whose menu the sciview is started... not very initiutive solution

perhaps, when a sciview is started from Mastodon, a mini-controlling window can come up with the following controls

• locks bar, in the true Mastodon style, this would make this window "synced" to anything in Mastodon that user decides to (and would forward its state to sciview)
• a bunch of checkboxes through which users control direction and level of synchronization
  • synchonize the view in sciview with Mastodon
  • synchronize the view Mastodon with sciview
  • sync also viewing angle
  • pass spots highlighting
  • update spots positions (if I move a spot in Mastodon shall it move in sciview, or if I move it in sciview should it move in Mastodon too)
  • etc.... show it to users, they're usually creative...

Example code for the former, the locks bar:

• a window with locks bar
• commanding the rest of the lock group to focus on a particular spot
• this one is called when the lock group wants to update you, check where it is used in that code to learn more

The code ATM in the repo is always taking the first view, ignores the others... but I have a "mini-lib" with GUI/scijava dialog to choose the view, and inspect around....

hope it helps to get us started :-)

[xulman]

actually the locks bar is added here: https://github.com/CellTrackingChallenge/CTC-FijiPlugins/blob/7382557c8c35e65f56656c16f3542cdf15a5a53f/CTC-related/src/main/java/de/mpicbg/ulman/ctc/Mastodon/TRAreviewPlugin.java#L221

[RuoshanLan]

I just built a mini controlling window with several synchronize choices:

[RuoshanLan]

a window with locks bar is added and works as expected