Creating an iTool Interface

Using an existing iTool user interface for data display and modification is the easiest way to allow your user to access, visualize and modify supported plot, volume, surface, map and image data. See Introducing the IDL iTools (iTool User's Guide) for information on using the iTools.

If you need functionality beyond that provided by an existing iTool, you can expand the functionality by adding:

Custom operations or manipulators to standard visualization types

Custom file writers or file readers

Custom messages

Using an existing iTool lets to provide your users with a great deal of pre-built functionality. For information on expanding the iTool functionality mentioned above, see the following sections in the iTool Programming:

Creating an Operation and Creating a Manipulator

Creating a File Reader and Creating a File Writer

Using iTool User Interface Elements