On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Tim Stevens wrote:
>> Incidentally, getting back to an undivided window from this situation is a
>> little long-winded (at least I haven't found the quick way if it's
>> there): Strips -> Clear gets rid of either vertical or horizontal
>> separators, but then when you try to switch to the other orientation, the
>> separators switch round also and are then always "orthogonal" and so can't
>> be cleared except one by one from the right mouse menu.
>
> Clear gets rid of only "strips", not "separators", although it can easily
> be modified to remove both. It is quite deliberate that there is a switch
> between terminology in Analysis, i.e. "strips" and "separators" when you
> change the strip direction. The point is to always have the "strips"
> represent the orientation of divisions with the movable z dim. The
> efficiency of separator removal is a somewhat separate issue, and in any
> case you shouldn't have change strip orientation so that you can remove
> separators. If anything, a separate curation system would be ideal for the
> "separators".
>
>> It seems to me that the horizontal/vertical button is overloaded
>
> The bottom line is that users shouldn't be using it to get at the
> orthogonal separators from the strips. I really want to keep these two
> separate functional concepts also separate in the GUI.
Great, I understand now. Dunno how easy it is, but maybe the dividers
between strips and separators could be coloured differently to highlight
the distinction?
> I think that the text on the button may be misleading you; "Flip to X/Y
> Axis" may be better, although I seem to remember choosing
> "horizontal/vertical" on both grounds of space and clarity of axis: some
> use "X" for the orientation cutting X an others parallel to X. Muurh.
The wording is fine now that I understand what's going on.
> Hopefully a future "separator" section will resolve any ambiguity.
Sure thing.
Brian
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