RE: collaborative GUI

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• Subject: RE: collaborative GUI
• From: "Mike Wang" <x.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 21:09:59 -0000

Hi Bill,

Thanks for your reply.

>I don't understand what 'registered with RendererControl' means? What
method are you invoking to register?

Here 'registered' means fetching a RendererControl from Host. I used
localRendCtl = (RendererControl
)localDisplay.getControl(RendererControl.class); to fetch
RendererControl from Host. It worked well.  
This was not one of my questions. Sorry about the confusion. 


>VisAD has built-in support collaboration between remote Displays, as
described at:

  http://icecube.wisc.edu/~dglo/visad-collab/index.html

>The IDV supports remote collaboration using VisAD but
>without VisAD's built-in support. Perhaps someone from
>Unidata can describe how that works.

>Note there are complex synchronization problems with
>remote collaboration, so if you can use the built-in
>support or copy the IDV approach, it will make life
>easier.

Yes, I've gone through all the tutorials suggested above and invoked
most of the mothods in my application. 
I mainly use the visad built-in collaboration support so far. Based on
RendererControl, all graphics widgets associated with Controls and
ScalarMaps worked very well.

I found that when a DataReference has been removed in Host, Clients
didn't response. After investagation on VisAD, it seems that
REFERENCE_REMOVED event was not sent to clients. So I made some changes
to VisAD system to make this part work. Although I knew this may bring
some trouble later on, but I have no better choice at this moment.

To those self-developed graphics widgets (e.g. ComboBox, Button etc.)
which neither belongs to Controls nor ScalarMap. I still have no idea
how to make them collaborative. 

I will follow your suggestion to see if IDV's approach can be invoked in
my application.


Thank you very much.


Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-visad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-visad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Bill Hibbard
Sent: 28 January 2006 19:38
To: Mike Wang
Cc: visad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: collaborative GUI


Hi Mike,

> I'm developing a 3D visualization system based on VisAD.
> I now encountered a problem, hope somebody on the list can give me
> help.
>
> In server side, I developed a set of Swing and AWT GUI components to
> manage visad display properties. They are working well on both 
> standalone and server mode.  All GUI componemt registered with 
> RendererControl can be manipulated in either server or client side.

I don't understand what 'registered with RendererControl' means? What
method are you invoking to register?

> The problems are:
> 1. How can I make GUI components which not registered with Display's
> RendererControl or ScalarMaps collaborative? 2. How to broadcast a 
> message between collaborators (e.g. send a String from Server to 
> Client and vice versa)?

VisAD has built-in support collaboration between remote Displays, as
described at:

  http://icecube.wisc.edu/~dglo/visad-collab/index.html

The IDV supports remote collaboration using VisAD but
without VisAD's built-in support. Perhaps someone from
Unidata can describe how that works.

Note there are complex synchronization problems with
remote collaboration, so if you can use the built-in
support or copy the IDV approach, it will make life
easier.

Good luck,
Bill
p.s., happy new year everyone

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