Hi Phillip,
There is a spreadsheet built into VisAD:
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~curtis/ss.html
The visad/rabin/RainSheet.java program distributed as part of the
VisAD source JAR file is a simple example of how to use the visad.ss
classes to build a custom spreadsheet. The visad/rabin/Rain.java
program is a spreadsheet that doesn't use the classes in visad.ss
but does include direct manipulation of a value (2-D cursor) in a
spreadsheet cell. Scroll down to the heading "Rainfall Estimation
Custom SpreadSheet" on the VisAD web page:
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/visad.html
This web page lists a number of other examples that use
direct manipulation. You can an overview of VisAD
direct manipulation at:
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/VisGUI.html
and technical information about direct manipulation in
section 1.8 of:
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/dr_tutorial.html
Good luck,
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phillip Kent"
To: visad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [visad] Question about a spreadsheet-type application
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:12:36 +0100
I just discovered VisAD and am very impressed by its capabilities,
particularly in the Visualization Spreadsheet.
I need to develop an application which is not like any of the VisAD
examples, so I am unsure if VisAD is a viable or sensible choice to
code with.
I'm thinking about a spreadsheet where mostly the entries are
simple numbers, but some entries may be (static) images, or
possibly small (and few variable) data sets. For the simple number
cells I need to do standard formula-based calculations. So it's a
sort of 'multimedia spreadsheet' to be used for recording different
kinds of data, and to be able to organise and 'play around' with
the data. This is to support a learning application for
decision-making with quantified (statistical) and unquantified data.
The other specific thing I need is to be able to construct 2D
charts from numerical entries in the spreadsheet, and to have
direct manipulation of the values in the individual data cells by
dragging the data point displayed in the chart [Excel had this as a
built-in function prior to version Excel2007]. That's the basic, if
there were neat ways to do more complex direct manipulation that
would be a bonus.
Thanks for any suggestions!
- Phillip
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