General suggestions

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Hi All!

First: APP was very easy to setup & after some mouse clicks I understood how it works. (who wants to buy my PI licence….)
Some suggestions, I’m on OSX by the way…. Installation is a breeze.

I know the first couple of weeks probably is all about fixing bugs, so this might be for later……
-Maybe it’s easier to put suggestions in a subtopic so all stays together.
-I use a dedicated external SSD for cache and temp stuff. I miss the option of switching to other HD’s.
-Can’t find a zoom function. That is: zoom out, double click I did find. (add shortcut instead or in addition?)

-The interactive vignetting correction window(or any other tool window) disappears in the background after input (in my case drawing a box). I’t’s handy to put that on top.
-All the sliders on the right: Spacing between slider & text is odd. I always select the slider nearest to the text. Therefore the wrong one….(could be my bet)

-addition of shortcuts.

-stretch slider reach is off/long. With my first stack, I could only work in the very first bit of the slider, making minimal corrections very hard. Maybe you could implement keyboard number input as well.

-floating windows for tools and all for working with 2 screens? With saved workspaces (might be a major reprogram thingy, I don’t know)

Thanks Mabula, this looks VERY promising!!!!!

That’s it for now.

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Hi Marco,

Thank you for your initial feedback ?

“First: APP was very easy to setup & after some mouse clicks I understood how it works. (who wants to buy my PI licence….)
Some suggestions, I’m on OSX by the way…. Installation is a breeze.”

That’s great to hear, Marc & Vincent have some trouble with the license verification on MacOS each time you start APP. I am working on this, if you can’t start APP due to verification failure, please contact me until I have this solved.

“I know the first couple of weeks probably is all about fixing bugs, so this might be for later……
-Maybe it’s easier to put suggestions in a subtopic so all stays together.
-I use a dedicated external SSD for cache and temp stuff. I miss the option of switching to other HD’s.
-Can’t find a zoom function. That is: zoom out, double click I did find. (add shortcut instead or in addition?)”

Yes, let’s make a suggestions/RFC subtopic, I will open it.

I have setup APP to use a working directory, this directory is used for temporary files during stacking,  (filemapping of the stack, rejection, weight and normalization maps). Use a HDD with enough free space (about 100-200 GBs at least I would suggest). And possibly your fastest drive, this will help speed things up. If you select the working directoyr on your external SSD, I think it will work very well. I often use an external 3TB usb3 drive with my macbook and that works very well. I can do all the work on the external drive. But your OS needs to be able to write to the external drive. MacOS has a problem with writing natively on a NTFS partition for instance.

Zooming in and out can be done with left/righ mouse click in the image viewer window. And you can zoom in far past 100%. If you need to rescale the image to fit to your image viewer window, click the scale selectbox at the top. I will make a button for this.

“The interactive vignetting correction window(or any other tool window) disappears in the background after input (in my case drawing a box). I’t’s handy to put that on top.”

Indeed, I have been planning to integrate this better ? will do this soon.

“-All the sliders on the right: Spacing between slider & text is odd. I always select the slider nearest to the text. Therefore the wrong one….(could be my bet)”

Got the same feedback from Yves, it’s on my list to improve

“-addition of shortcuts.”

Can you be more elaborate on this? For a certain function?

“-stretch slider reach is off/long. With my first stack, I could only work in the very first bit of the slider, making minimal corrections very hard. Maybe you could implement keyboard number input as well.”

Yes, usually I select the slider with the mouse and then use arrow keys for fine tuning. When you use the DPP auto function, the initial stretch is usually pretty good already, especially after LP correction and background calibration. Fine tuning with the arrow keys then is normally pretty simple. But I guess I need to make this more intuitive, so it can be done just with the mouse.

-floating windows for tools and all for working with 2 screens? With saved workspaces (might be a major reprogram thingy, I don’t know)

I have been thinking about this, I work with 2 screens myself. I think I need to implement the option to have the image viewer and histogram + preview filter in a seperate Frame which then can be used on 1 screen in full screen mode. The control panel will be on the other screen then. I think this is a very interesting option so I’ll definitely work on that.

“Thanks Mabula, this looks VERY promising!!!!!”

Thank you very much Marco ?

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