FurtherDevelopment

Development Plans for BALL (Version 1.4/2.0)

This list contains plans and wishes for the next major versions of BALL/VIEW. Please add your wishes and comments here.

Architecture Changes

• FragmentDB rework
• Exchangable datastructures in BALL Kernel
• Consequent use of the MVC pattern
• Focus on parallelization and thread safety
• Hookls for external packages (GROMACS)

BALL Features

• Drop BALL::Directory in favor of Boost Filesystem
• Inital quantum mechanics support
• User editable options/parameter file formats
• Hybridisation processor
• Neighbor-Iterator

VIEW Features

• Integrate the RTfact library
• Integrated Volume Raytracing
• Embed Scene in QGraphicsView
  • Allows overlays in the GUI
• Generate images without opening a GUI application
• Improvements to the python Window (automatic space/tab conversion, line numbers for debugging)
• Colour-by-property colouring method for direct visualization of scripting results in BALLView