UX suggestions

[furgo16]

1. Toolbar: the "Play" and "Stop" buttons do not give much visual feedback to the user except for their tooltips. A better user experience could be:
   • Differentiate the disabled/enabled state. If they are actionable (e.g. due to settings), the buttons should be disabled (grayed out)
   • On hover, they should be highlighted, as any other toolbar button. In the same way as the SunDialog button
2. Settings dialog: the dialog should read whether features are enabled (e.g. running Link branch, having Render workbench installed, etc). Depending on the feature set, the associated settings should be enabled/disabled. Currently, it is possible to enable settings that will have no effect.

[Francisco-Rosa]

Thanks @furgo16, for your suggestions!

1. Toolbar: the "Play" and "Stop" buttons do not give much visual feedback to the user except for their tooltips. A better user experience could be:

• Differentiate the disabled/enabled state. If they are actionable (e.g. due to settings), the buttons should be disabled (grayed out)
• On hover, they should be highlighted, as any other toolbar button. In the same way as the SunDialog button

They're already doing this. Perhaps add to the tooltip that in addition to selecting the image type, it's also necessary to enable Sun path animation.

2. Settings dialog: the dialog should read whether features are enabled (e.g. running Link branch, having Render workbench installed, etc). Depending on the feature set, the associated settings should be enabled/disabled. Currently, it is possible to enable settings that will have no effect.

This is a topic that gave me a lot of work, as there are so many combinations involved. But, we can improve it further. For now, there are messages to guide the user.

But, this issue focuses on the two generated image options: the Color 3D view (only for FC-Link) and Render 3D view (only with the Render workbench) and animation of this (with the Movie workbench installed).

However, there is a more complicated issue. FC-Link does not support displaying the solar diagram in shaded view. Using SunDialog prevents this, but opening a shaded view and then enabling the diagram display does not.