Difference: ApplicationsMessagingUseCases (3 vs. 4)

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Applications Messaging Uses

Below are some informal descriptions of the sorts of uses envisaged for application messaging.

These are some of the current uses of PLASTIC:

Instruct an app to:

load a VOTable
load a FITS image
load a spectrum
select/highlight a subset of points in a scatter plot
create a new table from a row subset
highlight an object in one view as the mouse hovers over the same object in another view (in a different application)
work on a selection of a columns in a table
load a (registry) VOResource description to an application
show a particular area of sky
display a group of clusters (in the datamining sense) in different colours (not yet implemented)

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control another application by sending to it some (application-specific) script commands

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ask another application to display a DSS preview image of a given region of the sky

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