Minutes from SSS Mtg 2007-Oct-23
 
Attendees: B.Butler,   D.Harland, B. Hesman,    G.v.Moorsel, F.Owen,
           J.Rochford, M.Rupen,   L.Sjouwerman, B.Truitt,    S.Witz
 
 
Observation Preparation Tool (OPT) and Source Catalog Tool (SCT)
 
  Brian gave a demonstration of the portions of the user interface
  that have changed as a result of incorporating the ICEfaces
  (www.icefaces.org) library into those tools.  Notable among these were:
 
  * A new menu bar.  (Known issue: moving the mouse out of a dropdown
    menu w/out clicking does not result in the disappearance of the dropdown).
 
  * Ability to select coordinate system, and a corresponding update to the
    column headings for longitude and latitude.  (NB: no celestial coordinate
    system transformation is being performed at this time.)
 
  * Popup dialog boxes may now be moved by the user.  Within an http session,
    the system remembers where the user last moved the box, and that is
    where subsequent invocations of that box will appear.
 
  * Unsaved data is better recognized.
 
  * When moving from one application (eg, SCT) to another (eg, OPT) while
    there is unsaved data in the former, that data is now automatically
    saved.
 
  * The "Processing..." popup has been eliminated.  In its place is a
    new icon in the upper right corner that indicates if the application
    is busy performing an action.
 
 
ScanLoop Table in OPT
  
  James presented a mock-up for a different way to present the table
  of scans in a scheduling block.  He presented a tree view of the
  SB's scans and an accompanying window where the details of a
  selected scan could be viewed and manipulated.

  The group gave the go-ahead for James to proceed with putting the mock-up
  into code.  James will present working code when he has finished.
  The group will review and refine his work.  It will also discuss whether
  the tree metaphor should be used for other parts of the project hierarchy.


Help for MDCAF and Archive

  Bryan noted that Ron Duplain will be writing java classes that will
  read and write the Science Data Model (SDM).  These classes will use
  the SSS Model classes.  Ron will be in Socorro for much of January.