david@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (David E. Smyth) (11/29/89)
Has anybody developed graphical widgets for displaying (any form of) data in the following ways: 1) Strip chart, sorta like xload but more general. 2) Line, bar, pie, whatever based on 2D and 3D data. 3) Spectrogram, 3D data with one dimension using color. 4) Dials or other indicators which are data driven sorta like TAE, but pure widgets. 5) ??? I'm open to ideas! We got the XDataSlice and XImage stuff from zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu last summer following Xhibition. Great stuff! But that machine seems to have gone away. Anybody know of a new name for the NCSA public domain software ftp server?
keith@csli.Stanford.EDU (Keith Nishihara) (11/29/89)
david@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (David E. Smyth) writes: >We got the XDataSlice and XImage stuff from zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu >last summer following Xhibition. Great stuff! But that machine >seems to have gone away. Anybody know of a new name for the >NCSA public domain software ftp server? ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu Neil/. Neil%teleos.com@ai.sri.com ...decwrl!argosy!teleos!neil f i l l e r
AIN14924@merrimack.edu (Michael P. Gerlek) (11/29/89)
In article <6508@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>, david@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (David E. Smyth) writes: > Has anybody developed graphical widgets for displaying > (any form of) data in the following ways: > > 1) Strip chart, sorta like xload but more general. > 2) Line, bar, pie, whatever based on 2D and 3D data. > 3) Spectrogram, 3D data with one dimension using color. > 4) Dials or other indicators which are data driven > sorta like TAE, but pure widgets. > 5) ??? I'm open to ideas! This question pops up about every other month. And aside from the GraphWidget by a couple of guys from CalTech [available from expo] which they admit is a kludge, the answer is still "no", as far as I know... :-( How come no one (the Athena folks, HP, etc) has yet made a generic graph widget? [ M.P.Gerlek, Wanna-Be At Large "But Mommy, ] [ Merrimack College I don't WANT a ] [ easy: mpg@merrimack.edu REAL job!" ] [ hard: {uunet,bbn,ulowell}!samsung!hubdub!mpg ]
davidh@dent.Berkeley.EDU (David S. Harrison) (11/30/89)
In article <13451@merrimack.edu>, AIN14924@merrimack.edu (Michael P. Gerlek) writes: > In article <6508@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>, david@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (David E. Smyth) writes: > > Has anybody developed graphical widgets for displaying > > (any form of) data in the following ways: > > > > 1) Strip chart, sorta like xload but more general. > > 2) Line, bar, pie, whatever based on 2D and 3D data. > > 3) Spectrogram, 3D data with one dimension using color. > > 4) Dials or other indicators which are data driven > > sorta like TAE, but pure widgets. > > 5) ??? I'm open to ideas! > > This question pops up about every other month. > And aside from the GraphWidget by a couple of guys from CalTech > [available from expo] which they admit is a kludge, the answer > is still "no", as far as I know... :-( Xgraph is a program for displaying two dimensional line graphs, scatter plots, and (limited) bar graphs. It is not a widget (it is a stand-alone program written at the Xlib level) but has nonetheless gathered quite a following. For those familiar with xgraph, I am working on a new version that permits discontinuous data in each data set, allows users to specify most graphing options in data files, and is more forgiving about fonts and screens. I plan to make it available just after release 4 of X11 (so that I can test it out and make sure it works under the new and old releases). Suggestions are always welcome. Below is the announcement I posted some months ago when I first released the X11 version of xgraph: ------- Xgraph for X11 is now available. This program is a port of the popular 2-dimensional plotting program orginally developed under X10. In almost all respects, this program is compatible with the older xgraph. This program is NOT a widget. Like its predecessor, it is a stand-alone program that accepts input in a graph-like format and plots the data on an X11 screen. Scatter plots and a limited form of bar graph plotting is also possible. Zooming in on regions of a graph is supported. This version also includes much improved support for generating hardcopy graphs to Postscript printers and HPGL plotters. The source for the program is available through anonymous ftp to shambhala.Berkeley.EDU (128.32.132.54): % ftp shambhala.Berkeley.EDU Name: anonymous Password: <anything non-null> ftp> cd pub ftp> binary ftp> get xgraph-11.tar.Z ftp> quit % uncompress xgraph-11.tar.Z % tar xf xgraph-11.tar This will create a directory called xgraph-11. In that directory you will find a file called README.INSTALL that contains directions for building the program. The source has also been submitted to the moderator of comp.sources.x in shar format. Please send all bug reports, questions, comments or suggestions to the electronic address below. David Harrison UC Berkeley Electronics Research Lab (davidh@ic.Berkeley.EDU, ...!ucbvax!ucbcad!davidh)