Re: [Plastic-devs] Passing VOEvents via Plastic

[Alasdair A. <aa...@as...>]

>>> Do you have particular applications in mind for this?  I'm not
>>> really up on what's what in VOEvent.
>>
>> Well obviously I'm someone will implement a VOEvent aware display
>> tool (before I have to sit down and do it), e.g.
>>
>>>> ...so that a Plastic aware display tool could for instance parse
>>>> the  message and plot the data products, e.g. a finding chart with
>>>> the event RA&Dec marked along with an appropriate error circle
>>>> taken from the message
>
> That's a reasonable thing for a VOEvent-specific tool to do, but
> if what you want to achieve by sending a handleEvent message is to
> mark a region on the sky, this might be better done by a sky-display
> tool such as Aladin, or a catalogue-display tool like TOPCAT, or
> some other generic application.  You'll have a better chance of
> interoperating with these tools if you send some non-VOEvent-specific
> message along the lines of ivo://votech.org/sky/pointAtCoords.
> So you might want to consider firing a pointAtCoords event at the
> same time as firing a handleEvent.

That's certainly how I'm going to start off with things.

Al.