Tom Sawyer Visualization
Tom Sawyer Visualization is a complete Software Development Kit (SDK) for building high-performance enterprise-class data
visualization applications. It delivers mature, precise, feature-rich and high-quality software engineering complemented with
high-quality documentation, programming tutorials, and extended API descriptions. Tom Sawyer Visualization supports the Data
Visualization and Visual Interaction layers of the Tom Sawyer data visualization reference architecture.
Tom Sawyer Visualization is ideal for developers who need to build visualization applications with precise requirements and
involving a high degree of customization. It enables developers to add advanced user interface presentation services into
their applications.
Most commercial applications have their own in-memory application data model and business logic. However, many of these
application developers do not have the time, resources, expertise, or inclination to spend years building sophisticated high-speed
graphical clients. Developers who use Tom Sawyer Visualization decide what kind of drawing views they want to provide to end users
and utilize the APIs to quickly construct graphical drawings within their application.
Tom Sawyer Visualization is the definitive development kit for building and deploying interactive data visualization applications, featuring:
- A family of product editions supporting a number of commonly used desktop and thin-client web architectures for Java and Microsoft Windows.
Desktop editions support Java and Microsoft desktop architectures as well as Java applets and Web Start deployments. Web editions support AJAX
thin-client image-mapped graphics implementations that do not require plugins and make extended use of JavaScript in the browser.
- Graphical nested drawing data model and interfaces for both high-speed batch-loading and interactive diagramming. The interactive system
provides command processing and multi-level "undo and redo" support. Application developers can access a rich selection of tools for highlighting,
viewing and editing. They can also create custom toolbars, tooltips, and context menus for their applications to enable domain specific application behaviors.
- An advanced graphics architecture in which the drawing canvas background, nodes, edges, connectors and labels each can have rich attributed graphical decorations.
Each graphical drawing element can have tooltip support to provide direct feedback for the user. Each drawing element on the canvas maintains a drawing tree that
controls how objects are rendered under different conditions. Developers use data-driven rules to control the rendering of each graphical drawing tree element.
By offering a flexible run-time, rather than a compile-time approach, the graphics system enables drawing elements to have different graphical appearances for
each specific user action, such as select, mouse over, mouse leave, or resize. With this advanced drawing system, developers can readily produce graphical drawings
with "level of detail" support. This enables the end user to zoom in and expose additional graphical detail on the drawing as zooming thresholds are passed.
In addition, each graphical attribute can respond to data property changes based on the data-to-drawing rules that are specified for that drawing element.
- High-speed rendering services supporting thousands of drawing elements on each drawing canvas. Built-in selection facilities implement common single and
multiple-selection metaphors. Viewing tools include marquee and focal zooming, panning, link navigation, zoom fit, scroll to, and drill-down and drill up-methods.
An overview facility provides a precise and synchronized high-level overview of the visible area of the drawing canvas. In addition, changes can be made directly
to the overview marquee to dynamically update the drawing canvas.
- Property inspectors that respond dynamically to selection events on the drawing canvas and facilitate the inclusion of data review functions into applications.
As drawing elements are selected, the common drawing element attributes and values are displayed in the property inspector.
- Flexible and complete multi-page print preview and printing facilities, as well as export facilities to save images in common graphical formats. A developer
can also save drawings in XML format and perfectly open these drawings later.
- Advanced diagramming functionality that includes moving selected nodes, resizing a node, cut, copy, paste, duplicate, interactive edge routing, reconnecting
an edge route to another node, and advanced routing and labeling facilities. Tom Sawyer Visualization also supports drill-down, collapse and expand, fold and unfold,
hide and unhide, and other complexity management techniques.
- Layout animation, layout progress bars, layout cancel, and multi-threaded layout capabilities. End users can work uninterrupted in one view while a layout operation
is running in another view.
- An advanced event management system lets end user applications respond to graphical, structural, and topological changes made to the drawings. This enables the
application data model to stay in sync with the graphical drawing data model.
Tom Sawyer Visualization relies on the high performance and scalable services of Tom Sawyer Layout. Tom Sawyer Visualization and Tom Sawyer Layout have been
designed and built to work together through many years of experience. Tom Sawyer Visualization may also be linked with Tom Sawyer Analysis to provide graph
analytics in a graphical application environment.
- Excellent Rich Graphical Nested Drawing Data Model – Construct rich nested drawing representations in support of numerous application
domains and complex use cases.
- Batch-Loading and Interactive Diagramming Interfaces – Quickly populate drawing representations for large data sources. A user's
interactive gestures are also captured smoothly and interactively within the drawing canvas.
- High Speed and Accurate Rendering Architecture – The rendering architecture has been tuned extensively and interactively supports drawings
with tens of thousands of nodes, edges and labels.
- Selection, Viewing and Editing – Tom Sawyer Visualization provides smooth and reliable selection, viewing and editing methods.
Overview windows and property inspectors provide the integrated features that customers expect.
- Custom Tool Creation and Context Menu Support – Create custom toolbars and context menus to
perform application-specific actions, launch programs, and open URLs.
- Advanced Event Management System – Highly-efficient system tracks graphical, structural, and
topological changes made to drawings so that the application data model can remain in sync.
- Superior Scalable Automatic Layout – Tom Sawyer Layout services provide scalable global, incremental, and
constraint-based automatic layout, labeling, and routing.
- Great Printing and Exporting Facilities – Build applications with multi-page print preview and printing.
Drawings can be saved in GIF, JPEG, PDF, PNG, and SVG formats. Drawings can also be saved in XML format and opened later.
- Support for Major Software Platforms – Build ActiveX, MFC, ASP.NET, Swing, and JSP applications.
- Superior Performance and Scalability – Leverage industry-leading layout algorithms in terms of quality, performance, and scalability. Build applications that can format and render drawings with thousands of data objects.
- Faster Time to Deployment – Robust, easy-to-use API libraries and a rich set of pre-built interactive components simplify the development of customized visualization applications. Tom Sawyer Visualization reduces
development time and lowers risk by allowing developers to quickly and easily create applications with customized interaction that meet the end users' exact requirements.
- Greater Stability – Data visualization applications built with Tom Sawyer Visualization have been successfully used in enterprise line-of-business situations by leading enterprises and governments.
Tom Sawyer Software delivers advanced data visualization technology the way you need it. Tom Sawyer Visualization supports a wide
range of software platforms for organizations that need high levels of flexibility to customize their data visualization applications.
Tom Sawyer Visualization can be applied to a wide variety of industry settings,
including banking, data management, energy, engineering design, intelligence, IT, life sciences, networking,
and software engineering. You can use Tom Sawyer Visualization in a Web or desktop application.
Tom Sawyer Visualization is available in several editions to accommodate development with your specific technologies and platforms. Select one of the following editions to see additional detail.
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Architecture
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Apple Mac OS X 10.6
Apple Mac OS X 10.7
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Intel
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Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows 7
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Intel-compatible
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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Intel-compatible
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Oracle Solaris 10
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SPARC
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