[Pipet Devel] Overflow/Loci/GMS collaboration

[J.W. Bizzaro]

jarl van katwijk wrote:
> 
> If I may ask: where do you need it for?
> maybe it's just too much out of reach to combine with gms's objectives after all :(

We have to start thinking of Overflow and GMS/Loci as two different
applications that can be used together.  Overflow is for APPLICATION
DEVELOPMENT and GMS/Loci are for APPLICATION INTEGRATION.

And if we look at Overflow as being an APPLICATION too, we can run Overflow
WITHIN GMS/Loci.

I think we could consider any unspecified application running under GMS/Loci
as a blank slate for an Overflow application to be developed.  Imagine
Overflow running in a windowlet within GMS/Loci, as depicted in this
screenshot:

  http://bioinformatics.org/loci/documentation/screenshots/latest.gif

We can make the workspaces look and work almost exactly alike so that you
wouldn't know Overflow is a separate application!  I can do that!

Cheers.
Jeff
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