[GOODIE] MacOSXGraphVizGenerator-dd

Lic. Edgar J. De Cleene edgardec2001 at yahoo.com.ar
Wed Mar 9 15:22:32 UTC 2005


On 09/03/05 09:46, "John Pierce" <john.raymond.pierce at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Very thanks for this port to Mac and a final question
>> 
>> Exist any way of what GraphViz returns a list of coordinates and small
>> images for Squeak could later manipulate the resultanting morphs ?
> 
> So, it looks like the Mac port is an aweful lot like my original Win32
> interface to GraphViz ;-).  While I don't care much about the clone
> (and, in fact, I really like the notion that other platforms in Squeak
> are accessible to GraphViz), if this goodie is coordinated with me and
> rolled back into my package then everyone could pick up some new
> optimizations I'm working on for base GraphViz package.  What are
> those? Well...
> 
> 1st, I don't have a Mac so I'd need someone to help me make the system
> "multi-platform", but in my latest edition of GraphViz, I think I have
> a way to substituable in an instance of a platform-specific generator
> class, but I'd need help writing and testing the Mac generator (any
> takers?).
> 
> 2nd, I have a new edition that I am changing my implementation
> strategy all-together so as to keep the "graph model" as real objects
> so I can send the graph out to GraphViz for node and edge placement,
> then get the coordinates put back into the graph model for folks to
> use in Squeak (e.g. build a connectors diagram or whatever).
> 
> This is 9/10ths of the way there right now as I just got the
> coordinates back from GraphViz as XML and now I must shred the
> document to store the coordinates back with the graph nodes and edges.
> Should be a weekend exercise.  I have many intentions to build a
> Visio diagram from this information as I've already tested my ability
> to automate Visio 2003 with the Squeak/.NET bridge (and it works).
> 
> Anways -- that's where I am at with it if anyone wants to help assist
> me in setting up a Mac or Unix generator I'd welcome the help.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> John
John:

I sign for test and help with Mac.
I check what mac port of GraphViz seems have some exports unimplemented, but
produce a "Plain" .txt like what I attach.
Maybe could parse this and produce the list of morphs.

Could email me to edgardec2003 at ciudad,com,ar to coordinate.

Edgar


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