Splitting Views

ParaView client has a mini-toolbar at the top of every view frame which provides options to split the view. When there was only one type of view viz. 3D view, we split the pane into a new 3D view. But now that there are other views including XYPlot/Histogram/Table, we may want to change the behaviour. This document describes possible approaches.

Split to Empty

• When user spilts, we split to an empty pane. The empty pane gets filled as per rules described in New Object View.

Split to Current

• Split to a view of the same type as the current.
• However, the user must be provided with an option to change the type of the current view so that he can change it to whatever type he likes.

Split to Choosen type

• When the user splits a window, we popup a dialog showing possible types of views. The user chooses one and that's the type of the new view.

Spit to Current with Menu to split to some other type

• If user simply click on the split toolbuttons, it splits into a new view of the same type as the current.
• If the user pressess and holds on the split button, we show a menu listing all different types for the new view. We create the new view of the user selected type.

Separate Split|Split To context menu

• We provide a separate context menu in which the user can choose the new type to split to. The tool buttons work as "Split to Current".