Diamond 4: Improved user interface
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Better integration of the document's different views
While you had different view types for structure picture editing, structure picture
thumbnail survey, powder pattern, distances and angles table, and structure data
set table in Diamond 3, in Diamond 4 you can now view data sheet, distances table,
powder pattern, structure table and thumbnails of other pictures side-by-side while
you edit a structure picture.
Editing a structure picture while glancing at the others
May be you just edit one single structure picture in your Diamond document, but
when you create different views of your structure, may be with various designs for
printing or for a presentation, it is practically to have thumbnails of at least
some of the other pictures at a glance.
Some of them may be more important than the rest - for the moment you are editing.
So you can arrange your preferred pictures on tabs, while you have access to the
residual pictures by link buttons. (This may remind you - not coincidentally - at
tabs in Internet browsers.)
Managing a lot of pictures in your document
The thumbnail preview of the structure pictures - basically already available in
version 3 - offers now a variety of arrangements as simple tiles (just the thumbnail
with the picture title), "content" (atom, bond etc. counts), and "details" with
more detailled infos and structure parameters. The thumbnails can be arranged, sorted,
grouped, or staggered in various ways and their sizes increased smoothly.
Color coding of structure parameter sets
If you have a lot of different structure parameter sets, e.g. from a database enquiry,
Diamond (optionally) differentiates these sets by color, in the structure table,
in the frames of the picture thumbnails, on the tabs in the picture edit view, and
in the data sheet.
Closer correlation of different views with your structure picture
Powder pattern (reflection parameter table and diffraction diagram), data sheet (configurable, formerly known as "data brief"), or distances table can be shown
beneath the structure picture graphics with enhanced correlation possibilities.
For instance, the distances and angles table can show the distances from the selected (central) atom rather than simply the atoms from the parameter list as central atoms,
with color-coding of critical (too short or long) distances.
New atom list
A new hierarchical list of atom groups, atom sites, and created atoms of structure picture gives you enhanced access to single or some atoms or some or all atoms of
a site or group,
e.g. to edit properties and designs or to select them. An alternative
hierarchy is to group the atoms of the structure picture for symmetry-equivalent
molecules and the molecular unit(s) that have been derived from the atomic parameter
list involving the current bonding sphere settings (connectivity).
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