| Re: Interactive Objects, Was: Simple GUI question [message #34913 is a reply to message #34789] |
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Paul Van Delst[1]
Messages: 1157
Registered: April 2002
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MC wrote:
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> My wish list:
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> 1) Whatever is availale in object graphics is also made available in direct
> graphics. And leave the choice of style to the individual.
<RANT>
Hmm. When I use IDL it's typically to look at data. That pretty much it. You know the
usual stuff, plot, surface, contour, etc. And once I have the first plot up, I want to do
things like change the scales (e.g. zoom), or rotate the surfaces - you know, play around
with the numbers. I realised after a bit of a rant the other day that I don't really care
*how* the images are created/displayed onscreen, I just want them to appear, and I want to
be able to manipulate them.
Why can't the mechanism behind someone type PLOT on the IDL command line be totally
transparent? When I plot something I certainly don't care if it was done via direct or
object graphics, I just want to see the darn plot.
So, I have to admit it sort of confuses me that RSI introduced all this whiz bang object
graphics stuff, but no "value-added" tools that use them. It's almost like buying a
mecchano (sp?) set - you get all the structural members and nuts and bolts and tools, but
if you want anything interesting to play with ya gotta build it yourself. I don't want to
write a whole bunch of code to do plots, surfaces, contours, whatever in object graphics
so I can utilise their superior capabilities - that's what we pay so much moola for in the
first place isn't it?
</RANT>
Off for more coffee....
paulv
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