Anyone experienced in express data with figures?

[wayne]

The current data is expressed in table form. For example:


After some calculation, I have:


Reaction:

Hour1 Dose1 Dose2 Does3 .......................
5 7 9

Hour2 Dose1 Dose2 Does3 .......................
8 9 10

Hour3 Dose1 Dose2 Does3 .......................
. L M N

 

[Andrew Thompson]

What's the easiest way to express the data using a figure?

For who? You or the user[1]?

..Anything
in a browser recognizable form would be fine, be HTML, applet, swing,

applet and swing are not necessarily separate things.

You can have..
- Applet - AWT
- JApplet - Swing
- Frame - AWT
- JFrame - Swing
- non-gui - neither AWT nor Swing.

So, if you decide on an applet, your choice is then AWT or Swing.
The advantages of AWT are that it is usable even back on version
1.1 JVM's. OTOH, Swing offers a components well suited to displaying
simple HTML (JEditorPane), or the JTable class.

Further, not every browser has Java installed. So if this data
is anything beyond 'purely ancillary', you need to be able to
fall back to pure HTML.

pdf, or even MS excel (in the end user side, not my server side).

You're kidding aren't you?

PDF is ridiculous overkill for this task and end users generally hate it.

MS Excel is even sillier. Who are your end users? If they come
'off the net' then many of them will not have 'MS Excel' installed[2].
It is also a much more bloated format than HTML.

[2] I am running XP Pro, but do not have MS Excel. Even Windows users
are not guaranteed to be able to use an Excel format file.

So, to sum up.

[1] The user would be best off getting plain old HTML,
since HTML is made for browsers and much
a) lighter weight than the alternatives.
b) more widely readable by browsers.

HTH

 

[wayne]

The end users are inside the company. Currently the data (in table
form and dynamic)is displyed in JSP. I'd like the data displayed in 3
dimensional figure form. Since I have zero clue about any graphics
programming, where do I start with? OK, no PDF or Excel.

Thanks,

Wayne

What's the easiest way to express the data using a figure?

For who? You or the user[1]?

..Anything
in a browser recognizable form would be fine, be HTML, applet, swing,

applet and swing are not necessarily separate things.

You can have..
- Applet - AWT
- JApplet - Swing
- Frame - AWT
- JFrame - Swing
- non-gui - neither AWT nor Swing.

So, if you decide on an applet, your choice is then AWT or Swing.
The advantages of AWT are that it is usable even back on version
1.1 JVM's. OTOH, Swing offers a components well suited to displaying
simple HTML (JEditorPane), or the JTable class.

Further, not every browser has Java installed. So if this data
is anything beyond 'purely ancillary', you need to be able to
fall back to pure HTML.

pdf, or even MS excel (in the end user side, not my server side).

You're kidding aren't you?

PDF is ridiculous overkill for this task and end users generally hate it.

MS Excel is even sillier. Who are your end users? If they come
'off the net' then many of them will not have 'MS Excel' installed[2].
It is also a much more bloated format than HTML.

[2] I am running XP Pro, but do not have MS Excel. Even Windows users
are not guaranteed to be able to use an Excel format file.

So, to sum up.

[1] The user would be best off getting plain old HTML,
since HTML is made for browsers and much
a) lighter weight than the alternatives.
b) more widely readable by browsers.

HTH

 

[Andrew Thompson]

On 1 Dec 2004 11:13:13 -0800, wayne wrote:

Please refrain from top-posting. Post in-line with trimming.

...
The end users are inside the company.

Make sure you mention that in any new post, it makes a HUGE
difference. In which country is the company (yes, it is relevant).

..Currently the data (in table
form and dynamic)is displyed in JSP. I'd like the data displayed in 3
dimensional figure form.

Why did you not mention that? Please give all pertinent
data and constraints in future, so the responders do not
need to guess.

..Since I have zero clue about any graphics
programming, where do I start with?

The best group for GUI matters..
<http://www.physci.org/codes/javafaq.jsp#cljg>
Read the linked FAQ for graphics rendering tips, then make
a new post to the GUI group.

As a starter, the Graphics2D API could do what you want,
but you *might* find a package such as JFreeChart does it
with much less programming overhead on your part.

HTH