Dear DIA Developers, I would like to help create a Layout Plugin API, or use what is already existing. The API would allow for the adding in an configuring of various layout engines.
Can you please tell me where to start looking into this, I have identified some click and move and update handlers, but am interested in getting some input on where you think the best interface would be placed. You can imagine various layout managers that you can turn off and on, and specifiy attributes on the node and link layer to handle. Springs, Gravity, Magnets, weights and even simulated annealling are different ways to do interesting layouts. You might remember me talking about VCG, I have dissected the VCG code enough to allow for some interesting experiements, we should be able to extract and specify the sizes of nodes, at least using some radius mechanism to specify a circle around each object that covers it. Anyway, I figure at minimal we need to be able to exchange lines and nodes, and have them updated. The lines might get segmented, and objects might get put onto different pages. Also on this note, what are the possibilities of embedding hrefs in each object and exporting to jpg image maps? I am sure that someone has looked into or has done this already? Has anyone looked at www.touchgraph.com? The new google browser is really cool. Hope to hear from you, Best regards, Mike ===== James Michael DuPont __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
