SEYMOUR@uwaphy.PHYS.WASHINGTON.EDU (01/23/88)
Hello, folks (woof,woof)* I would dearly love to receive examples of programs which do things on VAXstation 2 GPX's. We've got monochromes, but color software helps too. We do not have GKS nor Labstar (a recursive condition, but that's another story), so UIS routines are what we need. [now vws 3.1, vms 4.5, will upgrade] In particular, I would really appreciate Menu creation and usage subroutines. Mouse stuff and general 1-, 2- and 3-d plotting, etc. (not too pushy, is he?). We're trying to port and make nuclear physics data acquisition and analysis programs for these beasties. (our old stuff uses a VT-11 on an 11/60) The packages we're looking at (Q, Xsys, Daphne) all do Tektronix graphics, but I'd like to give our users (and myself) something better or at least tailored to the hardware available. Specific displays such as histograms, vertical and horizontal scaling thereof (menus again), region-of-interest marking, windows with crunched numbers. A need that the hardware doesn't support (as the VT-11 did) is real-time updating of incrementing histograms. My test VAXstation versions do it by repetitive sweeps thru the data and erasing/redrawing pieces of histogram bars. We can actually sustain 4 displays of 1024 to 8k bars this way, but that's without anything else going on. Hard-learned lore of pool and other sysgen/UIS- settings to minimize loss of UIS$displaymgr would also be appreciated. I will try to summarize to the net (is there a more specific list for this topic?). [thanks to Joe Leonard, Aberdeen Proving Grnd, for his Molecular Modeller] Dick Seymour 206-543-4298 seymour@uwaphast << bitnet Nuclear Physics Lab GL-10 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195