Widget ideas#

• text window showing a subset of a gigantic (>100GB), should allow filtering, search, folding of blocks
• scrollbar with background image that can be updated. idea: show summary of environment in which we scroll.
• graph with objects I can click on and select associated data in other widget. Lasso to select a group of associate objects
• 2d heat map where I can click to find associated data. Select a group (possibly a la gimp). Ideally, zoomable, scrollable
• display two or more images on top of each other with a transformation for each, combine them (transparency, difference). Allow to zoom and scroll.
• layout manager that allows to stack widgets (e.g. Map of scrollable area on to of scrollable)
• text label that shows image behind text (e.g. Bar that shows value etc). The image could be blended with background color to make text more readable.

Text summary#

• thumbnails per page (section?)
• identify important words, assign colors, show them on reduced representation of doc (a couple pixel per page)
• when zoomed in show sentences that are important
• could apply to websites, clusters of docs etc.

Implementation techniques#

• Use composition to display image background behind widget: swing
• glazed lists seem interesting for searching/filtering lists