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From: AIN14924@merrimack.edu (Michael P. Gerlek)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Graphical Widgets ??
Message-ID: <13451@merrimack.edu>
Date: 29 Nov 89 09:20:06 GMT
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In article <6508@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>, david@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (David E. Smyth) writes:
> Has anybody developed graphical widgets for displaying
> (any form of) data in the following ways:
> 
> 1)	Strip chart, sorta like xload but more general.
> 2)	Line, bar, pie, whatever based on 2D and 3D data.
> 3)	Spectrogram, 3D data with one dimension using color.
> 4)	Dials or other indicators which are data driven
> 	sorta like TAE, but pure widgets.
> 5)	???  I'm open to ideas!

This question pops up about every other month.
And aside from the GraphWidget by a couple of guys from CalTech
[available from expo] which they admit is a kludge, the answer
is still "no", as far as I know... :-(

How come no one (the Athena folks, HP, etc) has yet made a
generic graph widget?

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