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Since IDL can generate (easily) GIF images and the like, it seems obvious that IDL is well-suited for interactive Web pages (e.g. fill out WEB form that will tailor IDL commands which then produces a GIF image for Web viewing). Anyone have an example of the html forms and (Perl) scripts that we could take a look at to get us started? Thanks, -- Dr. David M. Legler Center for Ocean Atmosphere Prediction Studies Florida State University | (904) 644-3797 (Voice) 644-4841 (fax) Room 020 Love Bldg | Email: legler@coaps.fsu.edu Tallahassee, FL 32306-3041
In article <legler-0305950746560001@wolf.ocean.fsu.edu>, David M. Legler <legler@coaps.fsu.edu> wrote: > Since IDL can generate (easily) GIF images and the like, it seems obvious > that IDL is well-suited for interactive Web pages (e.g. fill out WEB form > that will tailor IDL commands which then produces a GIF image for Web > viewing). > > Anyone have an example of the html forms and (Perl) scripts that we could > take a look at to get us started? > > Thanks, > > -- > Dr. David M. Legler > Center for Ocean Atmosphere Prediction Studies > Florida State University | (904) 644-3797 (Voice) 644-4841 (fax) > Room 020 Love Bldg | Email: legler@coaps.fsu.edu > Tallahassee, FL 32306-3041 Yes, the NSSDC has created two WWW-based data systems that use IDL as its graphics engine to generate on-the-fly images from online datasets. IDL is called via a Perl script and the output is written to a GIF file that is referenced as an inline GIF image in a dynamically generated HTML document. A paper about OMNIWeb was presented at the Third International World Wide Web Conference in Germany and the paper is available via URL: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/omniweb/misc/papers/www95.html OMNIWeb is accessible via the URL: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/omniweb/ow.html and COHOWeb via the URL: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cohoweb/cw.html -- ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------ Jason Mathews, Code 633.2 |National Space Science Data Center NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center|email: mathews@nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov Greenbelt, MD 20771-0001 USA |http://coney.gsfc.nasa.gov/Mathews/jason.html