| 1 | /*
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| 2 | * Project: MoleCuilder
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| 3 | * Description: creates and alters molecular systems
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| 4 | * Copyright (C) 2010 University of Bonn. All rights reserved.
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| 5 | * Please see the LICENSE file or "Copyright notice" in builder.cpp for details.
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| 6 | */
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| 7 |
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| 8 | /**
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| 9 | * \file graphical.dox
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| 10 | *
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| 11 | * Created on: Oct 31, 2011
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| 12 | * Author: heber
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| 13 | */
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| 14 |
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| 15 | /**
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| 16 | * \page userinterfaces-graphical Graphical User Interface
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| 17 | *
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| 18 | * The GUI is based on Qt4. It used Qt3D for displaying the GlWorldView and
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| 19 | * allowing for easy selecting of atoms and molecules.
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| 20 | *
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| 21 | * The GUI consists of the following parts:
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| 22 | * - a menu created in a likewise as the one for the \ref textmenu.
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| 23 | * - a world view, implemented in GLWorldView, displaying atoms and bonds
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| 24 | * and allowing for selecting them.
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| 25 | * - A list of all currently selected molecules.
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| 26 | * - A list of all currently present molecules.
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| 27 | *
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| 28 | * \section userinterfaces-graphical-query Queries in the graphical interface.
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| 29 | *
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| 30 | * As all Action always instantiate a Dialog which behaves differently for
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| 31 | * each of the three user interface, we give a brief description of what it
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| 32 | * does here.
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| 33 | *
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| 34 | * Each of the query implementations receives a reference to a QLayout where
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| 35 | * it just adds its own query, e.g. for a double or a list of strings.
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| 36 | * Eventually, this concatenated dialog is presented to the user -- it might
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| 37 | * be empty though as well -- he enters all values and clicks accept (even
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| 38 | * in case of an empty dialog). These values are passed via a Pipe mechanism
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| 39 | * (this is a workaround as Qt's moc does not liked nested classes) to the
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| 40 | * ValueStorage.
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| 41 | *
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| 42 | * \section userinterfaces-graphical-world_view How the World view works ...
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| 43 | *
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| 44 | * GLWorldView handles the Observer translation to Qt's own mechanism. Also, it
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| 45 | * contains an instance of the GLWorldScene. This instance knows about all
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| 46 | * atoms and bonds present in this scene, i.e. it has lists on them and handles
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| 47 | * adding and removing. Objects in this scene are GLMoleculeObject's which
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| 48 | * are either .._atom (clickable) or .._bond (non-clickable). Also,
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| 49 | * GLMoleculeObject implements all transformation routines because atom and
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| 50 | * bond just differ in being a sphere or a cylinder.
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| 51 | *
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| 52 | *
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| 53 | * \date 2011-10-31
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| 54 | *
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| 55 | */
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