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- Subject: Re: Real-time graphing - call for suggestions
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- From: mark@trident.datasys.swri.edu (Mark D. Collier)
- Date: 21 Jan 93 16:27:46 GMT
- Organization: Southwest Research Institute
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- > Basically, what we want to do is ...
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- I have been prototyping software for the new control center being
- designed for NASA-Marshall. It will of course have similar,
- real-time X display requirements.
-
- We are building a display contruction and operation prototype which
- lets the user build/operate a display consisting of plots, virtual
- instruments, digital text, graphics, and other objects. The primary
- thing you would probably be interested in is the widgets we are using.
- At this time, we are using the DynaGraphX data widgets, which are
- basically the DataViews graphic objects with an Xt interface. I sel-
- ected DynaGraphX because it has a wide range of widgets and IHMO,
- is well suited to real-time. It also supports the features you
- described. I also considered and may use in the future, widgets from:
-
- XRT/Graph (KL Group) - nice appearance and lots of flex.
- Xtra (GSS) - ditto
- INT widgets (INT) - nice widgets initially for oil apps.
-
- A good source of info on widgets is the Integrated Computing
- Solutions (ICS) widget databook. It is a listing of COTS and free
- widgets from which you can pick and choose. There is also a Free
- Widget Foundation (FWF) from which you can obtain various free
- widgets. The ICS databook references some of the FWF widgets. I
- have not checked up on the FWF in a while and it may offer many
- more widgets.
-
- We also developed a custom widget which supports all the digital
- text, static graphic, and dynamic graphic display. All the code
- I have described is owned by NASA, so you can get ahold of it if
- you really want to.
-
- > Right now we're using X11R4/5 ...
-
- I use R5 and Motif (and obviously Xt) with no problems.
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