Now with some synchronized action !!!! You can now lock all the displayers together , so that you can drag one, and all the others will be dragged along. This is activated trough a contextual menu, accessible both in the displayers and the displayer manager.

Hello ! Introducing displayator 0.2, now with some improved Readme!!!
New feature : you can now move the displayed part of the picture from within the displayer. Just click some part and drag around. I also tweaked the way the tiles are exchanged from the provider to the displayer(s), but the result is only a slight improvement.

That's it for now.

Google Define is a search plugin for firefox. It is a very small modification of the default google firefox search plugin. The arguments will be passed to google with the "define:" prefix .
It is composed of the xml file (use "save as", do not try to see it in a browser: it start with a #) and the icon (). you have to place them in the "searchplugin" directory of the firefox installation.

It works well if you install google toolbar : you have two search box : one for google, one for google define ;)

Displayator is a Java program used to display a picture on many screens: that can mean different parts of a big picture on different screens, and the same picture on different screens. The screens can of course belong to different computers (if they are networked). The aim is to have a multiscreen/multicomputer google maps like application.

The download is unfortunately quite useless without some big pictures. you can get some nice one from the esa. for example, this big picture of some dried up river on mars or any from this other part of the esa website : miravi

This is version 0.1 . The functionality is very basic. but I am now familiar and confident enough with the underlying technology to be able to add functionality.

Requirements : java 1.4.2
The networking part uses xmlrpc, but it s included in the jar so no additional downloading.

Functionalities in the pipeline :
I will add grouping of the mini view so that you can lock them all together and pan them over the picture.
I will as well add the ability to pan the picture from the displayer instead of the manager (at last something like google maps ;).
You currently have choose the picture to open at launch time, and I will try to improve that.
The port on which the application work is hardcoded, that will very probably change.
At some point in the future I will add the ability to rotate the displayed picture (by 90 degres increment at first).
Some zoom functionality will probably be implemented.

in some distant future :
add layers and markers, most probably a couple of coordinate systems and the ability to fetch the tiles from google maps and other sources.

Update 2007/02/08 : My home server panicked after i updated its kernel, so I fixed the "Displayator" link to something more available.