1-5-2025

With the Vicon thing seemingly working ok, we can focus on a number of things we have spotted along the testing route:

1. Tracker align dropdown improvement: make a list directly under the button instead of showing ugly dialog
2. Review awkward key recording dialog
3. 3D window : 
4. 1. if we have set a rotation point on a selection, don't loose that when deselecting by clicking in space
   2. identify elements by hoovering over
   3. by default no selection active, can be done in combination with b.
5. The infinite progress is not stopped when the waitdialog is closed

After this we could focus on the manual so we can finally tidy up a release, and after that we could continue on other device integrations:

• Leica being the most important
• iGPS
• EZ

Enough chitchat

1. Tracker align dropdown

This is the current layout, it is the same dialog that you get from double clicking a tracker unit in the tree window (so that will disappear, or it should be replaced by an action that rolls out the gallery below the button)

And basically we want something like

The list should contain the next elements (possibly grouped)

• Static alignments for the active tracker
• Additional quick placement options
• For later: dynamic reference capabilities
• • Initialize on basis of 3D group or some 6DOF
  • Choose to activate one which was initialized before

So this is a job for a gallery button, like the one we use for calculations. This offers the possibility to group items

             

In a first faze we could go with the left approach, and later, when we add dynamic reference, go the right approach.

Quick recap on current implementation

key elements are:

1. CChildFrameAlignment::OnAlignTrackerBase (IDC_ALIGN_TRACKER_BASE)
2. CBCGPMyRibbonBar::ReflectActiveTracker 

 

calls

Code Snippet

1. void CChildFrameAlignment::OnAlignSelectTracker()
2. {
3.     CMainFrame*                    pMainFrame  = (CMainFrame*)AfxGetMainWnd();
4.     CRibbonTrackerListButton*    pButton     = dynamic_cast<CRibbonTrackerListButton*>(pMainFrame->m_RibbonBar.FindByID(IDC_ALIGN_TRACKER));
5.     int                            Selection    = CBCGPRibbonPaletteButton::GetLastSelectedItem(IDC_ALIGN_TRACKER);
6.  
7.     if (Selection==-1)
8.         return;
9.  
10.     CString Serial = pButton->GetItemToolTip(Selection);
11.     SelectTracker(Serial, true);
12. }

This will select the tracker based on the serial contained in item tooltip of the button.

This runs CChildFrameAlignment::SelectTracker on basis of the given serial number string:

• calls CConfiguration::SetActiveTrackerSerial(serial)
• • set active tracker in CConfiguration
  • GetNodeFactory()->OnTrackerChange
  • PostMessage(UM_ACTIVETRACKER_CHANGE, bSetSeparateCMMProgram, 0);
• calls StateManager.CommandSend(CCommandChangeTracker) to update the engine

ReflectActiveTracker sets all elements in the UI to ... reflect the active tracker. 

It performs the next actions

• Updates text and icon of IDC_ALIGN_TRACKER : handles tracker choice
• Updates text and icon of IDC_ALIGN_TRACKER_BASE : handles current alignment for active tracker 

The routine that we need to change is the one called when IDC_ALIGN_TRACKER_BASE is send, which calls CChildFrameAlignment::OnAlignTrackerBase(). This we have to change in a similar way to IDC_ALIGN_CAD

We have to create a CRibbonListButton on the fly and fill this with the static alignments available to that current tracker.

As often the case, turns out there is already a solution for a dynamic popup menu in the file RibbonListButton.h. 

It is currently used by:

Icon	ID	Functions
	IDC_ALIGN_TRACKER	CChildFrameAlignment::OnAlignSelectTracker CBCGPMyRibbonBar::ReflectActiveTracker CMainFrame::RibbonAlignFillTriggers
	IDC_SAMPLER_SOURCE	CMainFrame::OnSamplerSource CMainFrame::RibbonAlignFillChannels CMainFrame::OnSamplerSource CMainFrame::AlignSelectChannel
	IDC_ALIGN_SOURCE	CChildFrameAlignment::OnAlignSelectSource CChildFrameAlignment::OnConfiguration CMainFrame::RibbonActiveTrackerChange
	IDC_SAMPLER_TRIGGER	CMainFrame::OnSamplerTrigger CMainFrame::RibbonAlignFillTriggers CMainFrame::OnSamplerTrigger CMainFrame::AlignSelectTrigger
	IDC_VIEW_FLOAT	CMainFrame::OnViewFloat
	IDC_ALIGN_CAD	CChildFrameAlignment::OnAlignCad CMainFrame::RibbonCreateAlignCAD
	IDC_CONFIG_ADD_CALCULATION IDC_ANALYZER_ADD_CALCULATION	CChildFrameConfiguration::OnConfigAddCalculation CChildFrameRecorded::OnPerformCalculation
	CDCalculateTrajectoryNominal::InitRibbonBar
	CBaseGrid::RibbonFillExportTypesButton
	CDDataFeatureViewer::InitRibbonBar

So we can update CRibbonListButton to accept a function that gets called in OnShowPopupMenu and the fills dynamically the contents.