Applications Messaging Uses

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 (for instance, run a kmeans clusterer on only some columns/attributes)
• load a (registry) VOResource description and do "something appropriate"
• show a particular area of sky
• display a group of clusters (in the datamining sense) in different colours (not yet implemented)
• ask another application to display a DSS preview image of a given region of the sky
• display the location of a VOEvent