This section describes the messages which TOPCAT will respond to when it receives them from other applications via the SAMP/PLASTIC hub. The SAMP MTypes and PLASTIC message IDs are listed along with the descriptions; unless you are a tool developer you can probably ignore these.
SAMP MType:
table.load.votable
,
table.load.fits
or
table.load.cdf
;
PLASTIC Message ID:
ivo://votech.org/votable/load
or
ivo://votech.org/votable/loadFromURL
Note: this behaviour differs from the behaviour in TOPCAT versions prior to v3.0. Different options for handling exactly how a received row selection is treated may be made available in future versions.
SAMP MType: table.select.rowList
;
PLASTIC Message ID: ivo://votech.org/votable/showObjects
SAMP MType: table.highlight.row
;
PLASTIC Message ID: ivo://votech.org/votable/highlightObject
SAMP MTypes: voresource.loadlist
,
voresource.loadlist.cone
,
voresource.loadlist.siap
,
voresource.loadlist.ssap
System-level messages are also responded to. For SAMP these are:
samp.hub.disconnect
samp.hub.event.shutdown
samp.hub.event.register
samp.hub.event.unregister
samp.hub.event.metadata
samp.hub.event.subscriptions
samp.app.ping
ivo://votech.org/test/echo
ivo://votech.org/info/getName
ivo://votech.org/info/getIconURL
ivo://votech.org/hub/event/ApplicationRegistered
ivo://votech.org/hub/event/ApplicationUnregistered
ivo://votech.org/hub/event/HubStopping