[Pipet Devel] mockup

[J.W. Bizzaro]

Kiddies,

Attached is a mockup of what I think the workspace/benchtop should look like. 
This is once again a slight change from what I've been talking about.  I have
now put controls and displays together with the workflow diagram.

I think Loci should have two windows:  The workspace and the figure builder. 
The workspace I have attached to this e-mail, I believe should contain the
workflow diagram (upper left panel), available analysis tools and documents
(lower left panel), and controls or displays (right panel).

Notice that there are blue squares and red circles drawn on the left.  The blue
squares are documents and the red circles are analysis tools.  The mockup
attached shows a mouse cursor over a document (blue square).  Every document can
be viewed in a display on the right panel.  This will require that Loci has a
library of viewer tools.  As Humberto suggested, these should be binary and
downloaded by users choice if not already part of the Loci distribution.

Now what is the next choice in the workpath?  What can you do with a document? 
Change it somehow.  So we can click on a red circle in the lower left panel,
that represents an available analysis tool.  The workpath should in fact always
alternate between document and analysis tool (blue square and red circles).

Of course blue squares and red circles are just for this mockup.  The actual
program will have various shapes with a small amount of text describing what it
is.

The red circle we clicked on now appears at the end of the workflow diagram,
where the questionmark is in the mockup.  But just like every document has a
display, every analysis tool has a control panel.  And this control panel,
specified by the analysis tool (as a part of making the analysis tool a plug-in
to Loci) now replaces the display in the right panel.

The controls on the right (I'll make a mockup for what this looks like) are
mainly field entry boxes for setting the parameters for the analysis tool.  A
button on the bottom says "OK" or "Proceed", and when clicked, the analysis tool
(either local or remote) is sent the commands with the document (previous in the
workpath).  The analysis tool returns a document, and we start all over again.

At any point the user can click back on a shape in the workpath and is presented
with the appropriate display or controls on the right.  PLUS, the available
analysis tool in the lower left panel will change accordingly, and this is where
a FORK in the workpath can be create.  The user simply chooses a different set
of parameters (if an analysis tool was clicked on) or a new analysis tool to
send the document to (if a document was clicked on).

This is not to mention choreographed analyses, collaboratories, or figure
building.

Pretty neat, huh?


:-)
Jeff
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J.W. Bizzaro                  mailto:bizzaro at bc.edu
Boston College Chemistry      http://www.uml.edu/Dept/Chem/Bizzaro/
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