Data Visualization Software | Tom Sawyer Visualization, ActiveX Edition

When integrated into your application, Tom Sawyer Visualization enables users to view data relationships in drawings that they can interact with.

Press

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Release Notes

Review the release notes to see the latest features and enhancements that have been added to Tom Sawyer Visualization, ActiveX Edition.

Evaluation

Request an evaluation to build a proof of concept application. The evaluation software comes complete with product documentation, tutorials, source code examples, technical support, and the complete source code for the demonstration application.

Features

Add immediate value to your application by incorporating these robust features:

Technology

32-bit support
64-bit support
Flexible component architecture
Ease of integration
Internationalizable
Compatible with Tom Sawyer Analysis
Unified service design for layout and analysis
Eclipse SWT integration support

Drawings

Graph-based data model
Efficient iteration
Nodes with polygon shapes
Edges with routes
Nodes with connectors
Nested drawings
Attach properties to drawing elements
Event system
XML read and write

Graphics

Bitmap and vector images
Data-driven graphics
Rule-driven graphics
Level-of-detail graphics
Scene-based graphics
Drawing backgrounds
Node borders, colors, images, and text
Edge line thickness, colors, and styles
Arrowhead styles
Connector graphics
HTML-formatted tooltips
Multi-line tooltips
Multi-line text fields
Web page linking

Display Components

Drawing overview
Drawing element property inspector

Rendering

Swing-based rendering
High-speed rendering
Double-buffered rendering
Minimum invalid region refresh

Printing and Exporting

Print setup dialog
Print preview
Multi-page printing
Image export

User Interactions

Tools and commands
Hit testing
Automatic scroll
Standard selection
Marquee selection
Magnified selection
Pan
Link navigation
Marquee zoom
Interactive zoom
Fit in canvas
Customizable context menus
Customizable cursors

Diagramming

Undo and redo
Add, delete, and move
Cut, copy, paste, and duplicate
Drag-and-drop
Manual edge routing
Ploughing

Complexity Management

Drill down
Drill up
Expand
Collapse
Nest
Fold
Hide

Layout

Scalable layout
High-speed layout
Circular layout
Hierarchical layout
Orthogonal layout
Symmetric layout
Global layout
Incremental layout
Nested layout
Constraint-based layout
Labeling
Routing
Drawing fitting
Layout properties dialog
Layout constraints dialog

Indicates the newest features.

Tiering

Tom Sawyer Visualization is now available in tiered pricing categories. Tiering allows you to purchase individually priced sets of features and capabilities for your application. Over an application lifecycle, you may choose to expand the scope to include more robust features of Tom Sawyer Visualization. The tiered categories are packaged in two tracks: Batch and Interactive. Each track is designed to address the needs of a particular application scenario.

Batch

Features	First Tier	Second Tier	Third Tier
Two layout styles
All layout styles
Global layout
Incremental layout
Constraint-based layout
Edge routing
Global labeling
Viewing tools group 1
Viewing tools group 2
Editing tools group 1
Editing tools group 2
Printing tools group 1
Printing tools group 2
Drill down
Nesting
Hiding and folding
Image export
Property viewing and editing

Customer chooses preferred layout styles at the time of purchase.

See Definitions.

Interactive

Features	First Tier	Second Tier	Third Tier
Two layout styles
All layout styles
Global layout
Incremental layout
Constraint-based layout
Edge routing
Global labeling
Viewing tools group 1
Viewing tools group 2
Editing tools group 1
Editing tools group 2
Printing tools group 1
Printing tools group 2
Drill down
Nesting
Hiding and folding
Image export
Property viewing and editing

Customer chooses preferred layout styles at the time of purchase.

See Definitions.

Definitions

Layout Styles

Viewing Tools

Editing Tools

Printing

Circular layout
Hierarchical layout
Orthogonal layout
Symmetric layout
Tree layout

Group 1

Select
Pan
Marquee zoom

Group 2

Interactive zoom
Link navigator
Overview window

Group 1

Add tools
Delete tools
Move
Resize

Group 2

Cut
Copy
Paste
Duplicate
Transfer
Reconnect

Group 1

Single page printing
Print preview

Group 2

Multipage printing

System Requirements

This table describes the supported operating systems and development environments.

Operating System	Architecture	Development Environments
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows Vista Microsoft Windows 7	Intel-compatible	Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Microsoft Visual C# 2008

Tom Sawyer Visualization is also compatible with many other development environments that can host and interact with ActiveX Controls.