----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Boland" <rpboland at gmail.com>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 5:24 PM
Subject: need to draw finite state machines


> I am writing an open source project in Squeak for constructing
> finite state machines from regular expressions.  It contains
> a large number of algorithms (I am comparing them to determine
> the best ones).  To help me debug the FSM minimization algorithms
> and for other reasons I want a package that can draw a finite state
machine
> given the FSM as input.
> But I don't want to implement this from scratch.
>
> Is there any software in Squeak (or other version of Smalltalk from which
> I can do a port) that draws finite state machines (directed edge labeled
> graphs)?
> I need to be able to modify the graph easily in software (add and remove
> edges,
> color nodes or edges, etc).  I am not particularly interested in being
able
> to
> draw a FSM interactively though such a facility wouldn't hurt.
>
> Also if there is anyone who is interested in adding this functionality to
my
> project that would be great.

What about Ned Konz's Connectors, as a place to start?

* http://bike-nomad.com/squeak/
* http://squeak.pbwiki.com/Connector%20Tutorial

frank