Hi Steffen, The programs to which you referred look like they might be just what I need. It's amazing that none of them came up in Google searches for DAG drawing software. Thanks for your advice!
David On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Steffen Macke <sdtef...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi David, > > On 08/11/2010 10:26 PM, David Ferry wrote: > > on a single node. Are there limitatis on how many objects can be present > > in a single diagram? > > > Nothing in computing is unlimited. But you should be able to handle > thousands of objects. > I don't expect that you'll hit a hard limit, but things will get slow > and you'll have problems obtaining a meaningful diagram layout. > > Are there any sections of the source that might aid me in doing this? > Would > > it be difficult to re purpose the code for saving a diagram to accept a > > different source of input? > > > Which programming language do you use? Besides the Dia C sources, > there's a couple of other programs available that are capable of > producing Dia files: > > http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Links > > Maybe one of them matches your needs. > As you seem to be dealing with a fairly huge number of objects: Have you > thought about a program like GraphViz that specializes on the automatic > layout. Graphviz is able to output Dia files. > > Regards, > > Steffen > > _______________________________________________ > dia-list mailing list > dia-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list > FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq > Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia > >
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