Why the Gsharp Web Edition?

The Gsharp Web Edition is a version of Gsharp that will run on a web server and produce HTML pages and images of your data. The script can take input from a web form to control what data is read and how it is presented. Gsharp Web Edition can also create imagemaps to allow users to drill-down into the generated plots to explore the data behind them.

Graphs on Demand

Traditionally you had to decide which graphs you wanted to put on your web server, but with the Gsharp Web Edition you can allow your web site visitiors to select the data they would like to visualise and how they would like to visualise it. For example a metereological office could allow their visitors to select which town they are intersted in, which parameters and which time scale and then whether they would like to see this data as bar charts or line graphs, in 2D or 3D. The Gsharp Web Edition takes these selections and uses them to control what data to read and how to present it.

Information Drill Down

The Gsharp Web Edition can easily allow visitors to drill into any of your plots. If you make a bar or pie chart showing an overview of your results, visitors can then click on a bar or pie to see the results that lie behind it. You can develop as many layers of drill-down as you have data. You can restrict your visitors to a certain path through your data - ( e.g. country, product, then version) or allow them to freely investigate in whatever manner they choose.

Flexability

The Gsharp Web Edition can read data from ASCII files, binary files, databases or even Excel spreadsheets. If you have your own data readers or simulation programs these can also be linked into the Gsharp Web Edition.

The Gsharp Web Edition can make anything from simple bar charts and pie charts to complex 3D surfaces, interpolated within regions and across fault lines. Graphs can be easily combined and Gsharp is as happy with 10,000 points as it with 10.

Ease of Use

It takes just a few simple steps to get your graphics onto your web page

• Design your web form containing all the controls you want to support
• Layout your plot interactively using Gsharp and then save it as Gsharp Script Language.
• Adapt the script to use the values specified on the HTML form.
• Add some lines of code to create the new HTML page

If you also want to provide drill down support, you just need a few more lines to specify the graph which is drillable and the script that will handle the drill-down.

No installation for users

One of the advantages of presenting your data with the Gsharp Web Edition compared to building your own application (perhaps with the Gsharp Application Seat) is that once you have it on the web everybody has access to it. Everybody has a web browser and knows how to use it, so they won't need to install anything and you won't have to teach people how use your application.

Documentation, Examples, Support and Professional Services

The Gsharp Web Edition comes with simple examples and a tutorial to help you get started, and a User Guide and Reference Manual to finish the job off. As well as technical support our professional services consultants can be used to assist or to develop a solution for you.

On-line examples of the Gsharp Web Edition can be found at http://www.iavsc.org/GsharpWE/