Transforms module feature request

I have two request for Transforms module:

  1. While I can enable the visibility and 3D interaction of the transform in the Data module, I can’t seem to change the type of the interaction (rotate only, translate only, scale on/off) without having to go to the Transform module and expand the display option.
  2. The widgets are not informative. I can’t visually tell whether I grabbed the little handle bar, or I am rotating or trying to scale.

The markups interaction widgets, particularly ROI one is great and solves both problems. Is it possible to adopt that for the transform interactions as well?

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Yes, we’ll need to update the transforms displayable manager to use the same style widgets as for markups, and not just in 3D but in 2D as well

@Sunderlandkyl as far as I remember you have already done some work on this - was it just moving the widget base classes for these widgets out of markups module, or you went further than that?

@muratmaga Would you have resources (developer time or funding) to contribute to the implementation?

We may be able to contribute. @Sunderlandkyl could you weigh in on what still needs to be done so we can see if it’s feasible?

I made an effort a year or so ago to refactor the transform widgets to support transforming arbitrary nodes through a new DisplayableManager in the MRML core.

It’s been a while since I’ve looked into it, let me take a look into the previous work and figure out a plan.

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