RiverWare Output Canvas: Teacup and Flow Animations
Phil Weinstein, CADSWES -- Project Index -- edit: 9-20-2014

Overview:

The RiverWare "Output Canvas" is a new output device which can be used to illustrate water storage levels and water flows over a period of time. The initial implementation will support the following graphical elements, including two animated components:

1. Images
2. Text Items
3. Teacups
4. Flow Lines

Development:

• 9-20-2014: Sept. Development Report (PDF)
• Development Screenshots Directory
• View of the "TeacupDev" GIT branch.

Design 3:

• 8-27-2014: Development Plan (PDF) -- content ready for review; including estimates.
• 8-25-2014: Design 3 (PDF)
• 8-25-2014: David and Phil's Design 3 Review Issues
• 8-21-2014: Design 2 to Design 3 Changes
• Design 3 Mockup Images / Image Source

Design 2:

Change from dialog-based GUI design to "property editor" (property/value treeview) based GUI design.

• 8-21-2014: The "Design 2" document has been put aside. It is available in these forms:

• HTML:  http://cadswes2.colorado.edu/~philw/2014/TeaCup/Design2.html
• Word:  R:\doc\Output\OutputCanvas\2014\OutputCanvDesign2-2014-08-21.docx
• PDF:  R:\doc\Output\OutputCanvas\2014\OutputCanvDesign2-2014-08-21.pdf

Design 1:

This version of the Functional Design document specifies a dialog-based design for Output Canvas and graphical item configuration. We will be changing over to a "property editor" (property / value treeview) based approach (similar to the RiverWare model report configuration).

• 8-07-2014: Retired: Functional Design 1
• 7-30-2014: Retired: Requirements Analysis Draft

Dialog Mockups I (8-6, 8-7):

• Index / Qt Designer UI File directory / Image directory
• Output Canvas Config
  • General Settings -- (see section 1.3)
  • Teacup Settings -- (see section 3.1)
  • Flow Line Settings -- (see section 4.1)
• Teacup Instance Config  -- (see section 3.2)
• Flow Line Instance Config -- (see section 4.2)
• Text Item Editor ... plain ... menu 1 ... menu 2 -- (see section 1.2)
• Alternative Teacup config supporting common data source defs, with override:
  • Output Canvas Config / Teacups
  • Teacup Instance Config

Other:

• Current Project Funding: BOR Truckee
• Documentation Directory:
  • R:\doc\Output\OutputCanvas\2014\
• Reference Images Directory
• Prior Reference Material:
  • Workspace Class Diagrams (2009, from Qt3-to-Qt4 Port)
  • Workspace Text and Images for RiverWare 6.5 (Nov. 2013)
• Question Phil posted to the Qt Project Forum (8-5-2014):
  • Generating MPEG animations from Qt? (from sequence of QImages or QPixmaps)
    http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/45897/

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