Dear All
>Dear All
>I am using the current peak lists to clone
peaks from one list into another. However, the clone process appears
to be hanging (the whole python system is not hung but cancel >cloning
comes up on the button and then nothing seems to happen) help!
>
>another couple of comments / questions
>
>0. the ui is a
bit painful it took several attempts to work out what was going on,
what with semi modal dialog boxes appearing saying that I had not
selected anything etc a small >dialog box with two lists and start
cloning/cancel button would seem more obvious to me at least...
>1. as the clone operation happens in the background do I have to
be careful not to change the peak list i am cloning from e.g. what
would happen if I deleted it....
>
>
>regards
>gary
Now I have found out what is going on and it was a human interface problem
for the record you have to do the following
1. click on a list to clone
2. click clone peaks
3. a dialog comes up saying 'please select a destination' [OK]
4. you click ok
5.
if you have lots of peaks a second dialog comes up saying copy will
duplicate xxxx peaks. this may take some time. [OK] [cancel]
6. clone peaks changes to a blue button with 'cancel cloning' (note you haven't started cloning yet though ...)
7.
then you have to pick a peak list from original peak list [woe betide
you if you click badly and get the wrong peak list... you will trash it
and have to start again] or pick 'cancel cloning' button
sorry the developers may shoot me, but this design is just not very unintuitive
regards
gary
(n.b. it has taken me about 3 - 4 hours to work out where I was going wrong here)