[feature request] allow time browsing for several views simultaneously
Issue #166
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It would be a nice feature if on the client, if the user could group several views (sideviews and topviews mixed) together for time browsing (i.e., changing init and valid times).
Use case:
User has several views opened (i.e., different altitude levels plus vertical section) and wants to see the temporal evolution. Currently, user has to change valid time for each view individually, which is cumbersome.
Suggestion: In the main view of MSS (where i have the lists of hsects and vsects), allow the user to select several views and group (i.e., lock together) them somehow. Then, if user changes valid or init time in one of the grouped views, all views get updated (i.e., time selection + plot).
This feature would certainly be useful. The question is how exactly the locking/unlocking should work in the UI, how it should be visualised, released, etc. Further, each layer may, in principle and also often practically, have different valid times.
Practically, this would cause a lot of co-dependence between different views, which as of now are independent and may be closed/opened at any time. The model of having independent views with independent wms_control docking widgets does not really lend itself to this, implying that a clean, maintainable solution will be difficult to achieve.