Progress Report for the week of January 9, 1998
Accomplishments:
Over the break, Will and Jason have put together a preliminary outline for the write-up. Matt has continued to work on the coding. He has added pop-up menus, deactivated menu options when they are not in use, and is working on allowing dimensions to activated and deactivated. Matt also found a bug in the brush that was handing back points which were not in the brush. He implemented a workaround because the bug was not immediately apparent. The workaround used a computationally more intensive algorithm, but the biggest performance problem we have is with a java routine (drawPolyline). It takes many times longer to actually draw the lines on the screen than it does to calculate the points for each line. We haven't been able to determine any solutions to the problem yet.
Questions:
- How can be get a newer JDK version onto a solaris machine? We need 1.1.2 or better, preferably 1.1.5.
To do List:
- Elaborate on the outline and continue with the research.
- Continue with the bug fixing, specifically with the glyph and scatterplot graph brushes.
- Complete the functionality to activate and deactivate dimensions and then implement multiple brushes.
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