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Hello Adele: The benefits to using Jython (Python) for your first big VisAD project are that you can more easily and interactively learn how VisAD can be used to meet your data manipulation and display needs. While Jython adds some overhead to your processing, most of the "real work" in a VisAD application is done by the VisAD library routines and so there is no loss of performance. The shear convenience of the language makes it a winner for me... Just about anything you'd want to do in Java with VisAD can be done in Jython...and you'll get it up and running more quickly. About the only down-side I can think of is that you would need to learn a new language...fortunately, there are lots of references available (including a couple of Jython-specific books now out...). There are also some examples on using a CellImpl to change data in the VisAD-Python tutorial (see the example built in stages). Having said all this, if Curtis comes back and points you to including some Renderer in the SpreadSheet's BasicSSCell, then that might be the way to go for this project... tom -- Tom Whittaker University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies Telephone/VoiceMail: 608.262.2759
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