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Use case [message #205] Mon, 29 November 2004 17:09 Go to next message
Bryan Hunt is currently offline Bryan HuntFriend
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I saw that you were looking for use cases ... here is one of ours:

We are working on an application that nees a plotting and graphing
engine to display pretty pictures for our users in an eclipse view.
Most of our data is contained in a database and will be extracted, for
the most part, by pre-canned SQL queries, and we need to display the
data to the user in a bar, line, pie graph. To get started, we simply
need the rendering engine - nothing interactive, no printing, no user
customization, and we have no problem writing custom code to get the
graphs formatted (titles, tick marks, etc) properly. As the
application evolves, we will need more advanced features, but we
haven't collected the requirements yet.
Re: Use case [message #216 is a reply to message #205] Wed, 01 December 2004 15:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: robhm.tom.com

Would you use Swing 2D graghic component to embbeded a JFrame plot by
SWT_AWT ?
Bryan Hunt wrote:

> I saw that you were looking for use cases ... here is one of ours:

> We are working on an application that nees a plotting and graphing
> engine to display pretty pictures for our users in an eclipse view.
> Most of our data is contained in a database and will be extracted, for
> the most part, by pre-canned SQL queries, and we need to display the
> data to the user in a bar, line, pie graph. To get started, we simply
> need the rendering engine - nothing interactive, no printing, no user
> customization, and we have no problem writing custom code to get the
> graphs formatted (titles, tick marks, etc) properly. As the
> application evolves, we will need more advanced features, but we
> haven't collected the requirements yet.
Re: Use case [message #233 is a reply to message #205] Thu, 02 December 2004 02:32 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Paul Clenahan is currently offline Paul ClenahanFriend
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Bryan,

Thanks for the information. A couple of follow-up questions:

First one is a confirmation -- sounds like the application is a desktop
Eclipse-based application rather than web based/J2EE. Correct?
How do you want to display the charts? Or, more specifically, what do you
want to render them to? Will a JPEG image work, or do you need SWT?
And this last is a curiousity one -- which desktop platform are you
targeting? Windows?

Regards,

Paul Clenahan
Actuate Corporation (http://www.actuate.com)
BIRT PMC

"Bryan Hunt" <bhunt@mac.com> wrote in message
news:cofl29$aag$2@www.eclipse.org...
>I saw that you were looking for use cases ... here is one of ours:
>
> We are working on an application that nees a plotting and graphing engine
> to display pretty pictures for our users in an eclipse view. Most of our
> data is contained in a database and will be extracted, for the most part,
> by pre-canned SQL queries, and we need to display the data to the user in
> a bar, line, pie graph. To get started, we simply need the rendering
> engine - nothing interactive, no printing, no user customization, and we
> have no problem writing custom code to get the graphs formatted (titles,
> tick marks, etc) properly. As the application evolves, we will need more
> advanced features, but we haven't collected the requirements yet.
>
Re: Use case [message #242 is a reply to message #216] Thu, 02 December 2004 19:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Bryan Hunt is currently offline Bryan HuntFriend
Messages: 366
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Swing & AWT are not desirable. We can't afford the extra memory
overhead. If we have to do the code, I will probably try draw 2d from
GEF.

On 2004-12-01 09:34:32 -0600, robhm@tom.com (Rob) said:

> Would you use Swing 2D graghic component to embbeded a JFrame plot by SWT_AWT ?
> Bryan Hunt wrote:
>
>> I saw that you were looking for use cases ... here is one of ours:
>
>> We are working on an application that nees a plotting and graphing
>> engine to display pretty pictures for our users in an eclipse view.
>> Most of our data is contained in a database and will be extracted, for
>> the most part, by pre-canned SQL queries, and we need to display the
>> data to the user in a bar, line, pie graph. To get started, we simply
>> need the rendering engine - nothing interactive, no printing, no user
>> customization, and we have no problem writing custom code to get the
>> graphs formatted (titles, tick marks, etc) properly. As the
>> application evolves, we will need more advanced features, but we
>> haven't collected the requirements yet.
Re: Use case [message #252 is a reply to message #233] Thu, 02 December 2004 20:05 Go to previous message
Bryan Hunt is currently offline Bryan HuntFriend
Messages: 366
Registered: July 2009
Senior Member
Paul,

Our application is Eclipse running on the desktop. At some point, we
may want to provide a view to our data for managers that is web based.

Initially I don't think it will matter how the charts are rendered as
long as the rendering does not require Swing or AWT and the rendering
can be displayed in an Eclipse ViewPart. As our project progresses, we
may require additional functionality that may or may not change the
requirements on how the charts are rendered.

Our target platforms are AIX, Linux, and OS X.

Thanks for listening.

Bryan

On 2004-12-01 20:32:34 -0600, "Paul Clenahan" <pclenahan@actuate.com> said:

> Bryan,
>
> Thanks for the information. A couple of follow-up questions:
>
> First one is a confirmation -- sounds like the application is a desktop
> Eclipse-based application rather than web based/J2EE. Correct?
> How do you want to display the charts? Or, more specifically, what do
> you want to render them to? Will a JPEG image work, or do you need SWT?
> And this last is a curiousity one -- which desktop platform are you
> targeting? Windows?
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul Clenahan
> Actuate Corporation (http://www.actuate.com)
> BIRT PMC
>
> "Bryan Hunt" <bhunt@mac.com> wrote in message
> news:cofl29$aag$2@www.eclipse.org...
>> I saw that you were looking for use cases ... here is one of ours:
>>
>> We are working on an application that nees a plotting and graphing
>> engine to display pretty pictures for our users in an eclipse view.
>> Most of our data is contained in a database and will be extracted, for
>> the most part, by pre-canned SQL queries, and we need to display the
>> data to the user in a bar, line, pie graph. To get started, we simply
>> need the rendering engine - nothing interactive, no printing, no user
>> customization, and we have no problem writing custom code to get the
>> graphs formatted (titles, tick marks, etc) properly. As the
>> application evolves, we will need more advanced features, but we
>> haven't collected the requirements yet.
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