arron Right on. Tell me if you need any help. I am looking to produce a new release of vcg. lets work out some api. Take a look at redland http://www.redland.opensource.ac.uk/ mike --- Aaron Trevena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: John Edstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:40:24PM -0600, Lars Clausen wrote: > > > On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, John Edstrom wrote: > > > > I'm thinking of spitting out some data as digraphs. I looked > at the > > > > xml output from simple graphs and think that I can figure it > all out, > > > > but I'd rather spare myself the learning experience. > > > > > > Have you looked at the various programs available in the Links > section of > > > the webpage? > > > > > > > Yes, but only briefly. I"m still just casing the joint at this > point. > > AutoDia is the closest that I've seen to what I want, but I'm not > > really interested in UML. > > Cool - what else would you be interested in. I happen to be hacking > autodia this weekend and am working on dia->graphviz and vice versa. > Hopefully I can use similar code/logic to allow graphviz, argouml and > dia > to interact. > > As far as most of the autodia code is concerned diagrams are just > diagrams containing nodes and relationships - its should be easy > enough to > add some classes or re-organise the internals so that different > diagrams > with different types of nodes and edges can be produced/processed. > > > Layout is my main concern, more than rendering or manipulation. I > use > > the perl Graph::Directed module which, happily enough, writes xml > > and/or 'dot' files ( from the graphviz package). With the right > > arguments dot will figure out a reasonably well-balanced layout for > > the digraph and dump the coordinates of the nodes and edges. > > I have just been looking at this, I have already done some simple > calculations to work out aproximate coords for dia diagrams that > autodia > uses already. > > > I figure it shouldn't be too difficult to convert or rescale the > > dot-calculated coordinates into dia coordinates which would give me > a > > better renderer of the same graph. If that's the case then my > strategy > > is to convert from dot >>-> ( xml | xsl ) >>-> dia.xml. > > Hopefully autodia 1.4 will allow for dia ( not laid out) -> dot -> > dia > (laid out). I don't know how much time you have to hack perl - but it > would probably be easier to transform dot to dia using perl than XSLT > which is unwieldy for most tasks beyond rss to html. > > Anyone wanting to discuss dia related tools like autodia might want > to > email me off list, as I would like to set up a site / list for such > topics. I hope that connecting users and develoeprs of graphviz, dia, > argouml and the like would make for cooler tools and better > integration. > Failing that I can just use everybodies code in my plan to take over > the > world *cough*. > > regards, > > A. > > -- > Aaron J Trevena - Perl Hacker, Kung Fu Geek, Internet Consultant > AutoDia --- Automatic UML and HTML Specifications from Perl, C++ > and Any Datasource with a Handler. http://droogs.org/autodia > > > _______________________________________________ > Dia-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list > FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html > Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia >
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