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PLASTIC

Plastic related interoperability is a key feature in VOPlot 1.5. Using Plastic, one can establish a layer of interoperability with all other Plastic enabled tools like Aladin, VOStat, etc.

To register to an already working plastic hub, click on ``Register with plastic hub'' from ``Interop'' menu. If any external hub is not working, one can also start internal hub by clicking on ``Start internal hub'' from ``Interop'' menu.

One can send a VOTable plotted in active PlotPanel and even can send selected objects to all registered application in Plastic Hub by clicking on ``Send VOTable to'' and ``Show Objects in'' from ``Interop'' menu and a particular application or to all registered applications.

User can also set certain parameters related to Plastic functionality using preferences dialog that comes by clicking on ``Preferences'' submenu from ``Interop'' menu. This dialog sets two parameters:

  1. Launch Internal Hub automatically on start up: starts internal hub of VOPlot automatically when VOPlot gets launched, when enabled.
  2. Send ``Show Objects'' message on the selection of points: automatically sends selected objects to all Plastic registered applications on selection of points in VOPlot, when enabled.
The preferences dialog is shown in figure 21 given below:

Figure 21: Plastic Preferences Dialog
Image PlasticPreferences


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