| Re: iTools/interactive Analysis > [message #48248 is a reply to message #48244] |
Tue, 04 April 2006 09:47  |
Antonio Santiago
Messages: 201
Registered: February 2004
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> After how many years now (?) iTools still seems like a slow, difficult
> to use and ugly! behemoth that seems too unwieldy for interactive
> analysis. Am I the only who feels this way? Are we too small of a
> market? Is RSI just not hearing from us? Maybe I am alone?
>
> Thanks
> Axel
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In my case, after a couple of years without paying atention to iTools
and developed some object oriented IDL application, I was try to create
my own development framework: clases to send messages among objects,
wrap any IDL data into an object, ... and grouping this classes in sets
or packages (something similar to java) depending on its function:
classes to visualize data, to manipulate data, ...
But, oh, that's the same thing iTools do. I know they aren't the fast
way to analize any type of data, but is an existent framework (the
opposite of my inexistent previous described framework) with a lot of
good ideas (perhaps with some possible bugs, and perhaps not satisfied
all people).
Depending on the application you need to develop it can be a good tool
on your hands. Next are a set of good and bad situation, i have thinked,
to use iTools:
* Create an program to read a file and write some things into another:
BAD idea use iTools.
* Read a file and visualize its data as an image, plot, contour:
possibly, BAD idea.
* Read a file, visualiza data and interact with it calculating and
showing some results: mmm... possibly BAD idea but mmm...
* Read some files, represent data overlapping images, plots , points,
polygons, ... and interact with it as they are independent objects and
need to change its properties (color, thick, palette, ...): I think this
is a possible GOOD idea to use iTools.
* You have a belly pain (i don't know if this expression is correct) and
for some days you haven't been going to bath, and you need to modify the
source code of iTools to do something different: YES it is a very GOOD
idea. In less that one minute you are on the bath :) Sorry this is a
joke based on my own expreience. But even that bad experience I continue
thinking iTools is a great set of classes to made some types of
applications.
PS: It can be useful write a list (like above) of GOOD/BAD situationsto
use iTools.
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Antonio Santiago P�rez
( email: santiago<<at>>grahi.upc.edu )
( www: http://www.grahi.upc.edu/santiago )
( www: http://asantiago.blogsite.org )
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GRAHI - Grup de Recerca Aplicada en Hidrometeorologia
Universitat Polit�cnica de Catalunya
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