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Re: Hello again, and iTools [message #52878 is a reply to message #52867]

Thu, 08 March 2007 09:14

Kenneth Bowman
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Registered: November 2006

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In article <1173356728.109425.13470@q40g2000cwq.googlegroups.com>,
struangray@cantab.net wrote:

> In short: are the iTools stable, usable and extendable enough to make
> it worth my while to learn the whole application framework? Are there
> any bugs or gotchas that will bite me if I try to build an application
> more substantial than simple data viewers on top of the iTools base
> layer? I like the provided viewers, but have found a few bugs down
> among the details, and I am not yet convinced they are worth the
> commitment. I can bang together a basic program from my old widgets
> in short order, but most of what I am currently writing will be used
> by non-programmers later, and it seems as if a program built around
> iTools will be safer in the long run.

The iTools can be very frustrating (David has pointed out some of the
problems), but I have to say that I can do things with iTools that I
would not be able to do otherwise. A couple of examples:

1. With very high-resolution time series data, I can interactively
zoom in on the data to subjectively identify points of interest. This
saved me a good deal of time.

2. I can can make rather complex 3-D visualizations and view them interactively.

http://csrp.tamu.edu/hiaper/archive/goes_o3.png

I can also make movies of rotating 3-D graphics.

http://csrp.tamu.edu/hiaper/archive/PV1_surface_b.mov.zip

These were not trivial to make using iTools, but I think it would have
been virtually impossible using direct graphics.

3. I can easily save a visualization and send it to colleague so that they
can play around with it interactively.

The main issue that I have with iTools at present is that I have been
completely unable to make any Postscript out. Fortunately, I have a
really large monitor and can capture big bitmaps.

The documentation is very obscure, which leads to a lot of frustrating trial
and error.

Ken Bowman

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		Re: Hello again, and iTools By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 March 2007 16:20
		Re: Hello again, and iTools By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 08 March 2007 14:52
		Re: Hello again, and iTools By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 March 2007 10:43
		Re: Hello again, and iTools By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 08 March 2007 10:35
		Re: Hello again, and iTools By: Kenneth Bowman on Thu, 08 March 2007 09:14
		Re: Hello again, and iTools By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 March 2007 08:12
		Re: Hello again, and iTools By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 March 2007 08:10
		Re: Hello again, and iTools By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 08 March 2007 08:03
		Re: Hello again, and iTools By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 March 2007 06:50

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