Re: [Omaha.pm] Fishing for GUI ideas...

["Dan Linder" <dan@linder.org>]

You might look into AJAX a bit.  I would think that you could set it up to get more data for the left or right side when a certain point was reached.  Much like Google Maps does -- except yours would only send strings of text, not image blocks.

Dan

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Jay Hannah <jay@jays.net> wrote:

So Mario and I wrote this tool in Perl that kicks out HTML:

 http://clab.ist.unomaha.edu/~jhannah/RT386/demo.html

Click the pretty colors.

I have this crazy notion of some sort of GUI where:

- Users can seamlessly scroll left and right hundreds of thousands / millions of letters without having to stop and jump to another page.
- I can add parallel rows of ~300 letters which can be clicked to show / hide them. But somehow the current horizontal expand/collapse will still work. Overlapping rows would magically bump out of each others way.
- Users could add their own notes at certain places.

Given that all this data is unpredictable, with tens of thousands of clickable things in the same dataset...

How would YOU write that GUI?

Stumped,

j
http://clab.ist.unomaha.edu/CLAB/index.php/User:Jhannah


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