Extend functionality of outline="yes" in IDF

[Anders Markvardsen]

During demo with Rob Bewley of tube (PSD) calibration script it was highlighted that when outline="yes" then:

1. calibration is not visible in the instrument view since any calibration of pixel positions along a tube is ignored, which is confusing when calibrating an instrument. Also for any user and instrument scientist looking at data it is not clear from visual inspection if a dataset is calibrated

This ticket is to investigate if it is possible to keep the acceleration achieved by using outline="yes" while allowing the pixels along a tube to not be equally spaced along the tube and that the individual tube lenghts can reflect the actually calibrated lenght of a tube

[Anders Markvardsen]

To get started ask Roman - he is the expert

[Karl Palmen]

I note that this applies only to the 3D view of the instrument. If a 2D view is selected, then calibration is visible.

[Anders Markvardsen]

Could you update the wiki www.mantidproject.org/IDF to explain in more detail the effect of outline in instrument view and that it in only applies to 3D view please

[Karl Palmen]

Done. See http://www.mantidproject.org/InstrumentDefinitionFile

[Nick Draper]

Moved at the end of release 2.2

[Karl Palmen]

This ticket has been changed to minor, because the desired effect can be got by viewing the instrument in 2D view (cyclindrical Y) and this has been documented in the wiki page.

It may be worth investigating possible improvement of the way tube length is obtained for the 3D view with the aim of using calibrated instrument rather than base instrument.

[Nick Draper]

Moved to release 2.4

[Karl Palmen]

Do we still need this?

[Nick Draper]

Moved to the Backlog after the code freeze for R2.6

[Nick Draper]

bulk move to assigned at the into of the triage step

[Stuart Campbell]

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​6280