You might look into AJAX a bit. I would think that you could set it up to get more data for the left or right side when a certain point was reached. Much like Google Maps does -- except yours would only send strings of text, not image blocks.<br>
<br>Dan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Jay Hannah <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jay@jays.net">jay@jays.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
So Mario and I wrote this tool in Perl that kicks out HTML:<br>
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<a href="http://clab.ist.unomaha.edu/%7Ejhannah/RT386/demo.html" target="_blank">http://clab.ist.unomaha.edu/~jhannah/RT386/demo.html</a><br>
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Click the pretty colors.<br>
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I have this crazy notion of some sort of GUI where:<br>
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- Users can seamlessly scroll left and right hundreds of thousands / millions of letters without having to stop and jump to another page.<br>
- I can add parallel rows of ~300 letters which can be clicked to show / hide them. But somehow the current horizontal expand/collapse will still work. Overlapping rows would magically bump out of each others way.<br>
- Users could add their own notes at certain places.<br>
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Given that all this data is unpredictable, with tens of thousands of clickable things in the same dataset...<br>
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How would YOU write that GUI?<br>
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Stumped,<br>
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j<br>
<a href="http://clab.ist.unomaha.edu/CLAB/index.php/User:Jhannah" target="_blank">http://clab.ist.unomaha.edu/CLAB/index.php/User:Jhannah</a><br>
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