UV-CDAT Development

Prototype Description

This prototype will allow users to create visualizations of climate data using a specialized GUI on top of VisTrails. What the user will be able to do:

• Create/Delete/Save/Load projects
• Create visualizations in a project by drag-and-drop events
  • Create/Delete/Edit Variables
  • Modify plot properties
• Name/tag visualizations from the spreadsheet
• Save high quality images of the visualizations

Based on the requirements above, these are the following implementation tasks that need to be performed:

GUI

• Projects (Tommy)
  • Re-implement a view of the workspace. The projects panel will not replace the current workspace but will be displayed instead of the workspace in the uv-cdat main window. It will display only the uv-cdat projects and visualizations.
  • Add new/open/close/save menu actions for projects
  • Double-clicking a visualization should open it in a new tab.
  • when tagging visualizations, they also need to be annotated so we can differentiate them from regular workflows and they can be correctly displayed on the GUI.

• GUI Integration (Emanuele)
  • Make the spreadsheet accept mouse drop events from Variables and Plots
  • Modify spreadsheet edit mode so the user can change Variables and plots
  • Implement main toolbar
  • Connect Variable GUI to API

API

• Variables (Dave)
  • Create the Variable module
  • Check if subworkflows can be templated

• Plots
  • Define plots as subworkflows
  • Expose in the API a function to connect Variables and Plot subworkflows
  • Define a Configuration Widget for a subworkflow