Welcome to the Compaq Array Visualizer.
The Compaq® Array Visualizer is a software tool that lets you view and analyze array data graphically. The Array Visualizer's advanced data visualization techniques let you discover hidden patterns in large multidimensional arrays. An extensive number of customization options lets you bring out the important features of your data. The Array Visualizer uses OpenGL® (a high-speed 3D rendering library) to let you interactively move, rotate, and zoom data graphs.
The Array Visualizer includes several different software components:
The Compaq Array Viewer is a Windows application that displays array data in two adjustable panes:
The Aview routines library contains a set of subroutines that allow Visual Fortran or Visual C++ applications to display array data using the Array Viewer (via OLE Automation). Using this library, you can create data visualization applications with just a few lines of code! The library routines can also save array data as a file for later viewing with the Array Viewer.
The Avis2D and AvisGrid ActiveX (OCX) controls can be used by any development environment that supports ActiveX controls (Visual C++, Visual Basic®, Visual Fortran dialogs) to display array data in a variety of graphing modes. The Avis2D control provides more than 100 properties, methods, and events that the developer can use to customize its behavior. The AvisGrid control can be used to create tables of array data using about 30 properties, methods, and events.
The visual development environment provided with the Visual Fortran Professional or Enterprise Edition is enhanced to let you select an array in the debugger watch window and use the Array Viewer to inspect it (see the Debugger chapter in the Visual Fortran Programmers Guide). You can update the view to observe changes in the array data as the program executes.
This section discusses the following topics: