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Stew MacLean

Dynamic windowSpec generation for BGOK Charts

Hi,

I have a requirement for Charts with varying number and name of DataSets.

Rather than hard code all the variations I’d like to generate Charts dynamically.

I’m currently contemplating either:

1) Hacking into the builder to provide a hook at the point that data set descriptions get added

2) Generating the source for the windowSpec method and compiling prior to invocation

I’m interested as to what others do in this situation (or if there’s an easier way to achieve this).

Thanks,

Stewart

Stew MacLean

RE: Dynamic windowSpec generation for BGOK Charts

Replying to my own post…

I opted for 2) which works just fine.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stewart MacLean [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Saturday, 29 April 2006 2:27 p.m.
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Dynamic windowSpec generation for BGOK Charts

Hi,

I have a requirement for Charts with varying number and name of DataSets.

Rather than hard code all the variations I’d like to generate Charts dynamically.

I’m currently contemplating either:

1) Hacking into the builder to provide a hook at the point that data set descriptions get added

2) Generating the source for the windowSpec method and compiling prior to invocation

I’m interested as to what others do in this situation (or if there’s an easier way to achieve this).

Thanks,

Stewart

Reinout Heeck

Re: Dynamic windowSpec generation for BGOK Charts

Stewart MacLean wrote:
> 2) Generating the source for the windowSpec method and compiling prior
> to invocation

You can skip the compilation step and use WindowSpec instances that you string
together.

As it happens this was discussed a month ago. See here for more:
http://parcplace.net/list/vwnc-archive/0603/msg00445.html

HTH,

Reinout
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Stew MacLean

RE: Dynamic windowSpec generation for BGOK Charts

Hi Reinout,

Thanks for the pointer - a far more elegant solution!

In the end I created a template windowSpec and then modified the
resulting FullSpec.

Cheers,

Stewart

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Reinout Heeck [mailto:[hidden email]]
>Sent: Monday, 1 May 2006 12:33 a.m.
>To: [hidden email]
>Subject: Re: Dynamic windowSpec generation for BGOK Charts
>
>Stewart MacLean wrote:
>> 2) Generating the source for the windowSpec method and compiling
prior

>> to invocation
>
>
>You can skip the compilation step and use WindowSpec instances that you
>string
>together.
>
>As it happens this was discussed a month ago. See here for more:
>http://parcplace.net/list/vwnc-archive/0603/msg00445.html
>
>
>HTH,
>
>Reinout
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