thanks your explanation. for the navigation problem, maybe we can use nautilus as a reference. one floating textbox for searching.
I will make further investigate, thanks again.:) On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 03:27 +0800, Joshua Lock wrote: > On 19/12/11 00:47, Ni Qingliang wrote: > > https://niqingliang2003.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/taijitu.png > > I have wrote a GUI tool for internal use, > > is it possible to implement thus GUI tool for yocto? > > the attachement is the UI. > > > > every circle represents one package, the arrow between them represents > > the dependency. > > indeed, the dependency relation in this tool is defined by custom config > > file, but I think maybe I can use the relation exported from bitbake, is > > it possible or easily to implement? > > In short, yes - it's possible to implement such a tool for Yocto. > > BitBake has a dependency viewer GUI already, it uses a set of tables > rather than a graph of nodes - presumably because the graph is *very* > large once you get past a trivial build. > > You can play with the depexp by invoking: > bitbake -g -u depexp some-build-target > > Internally BitBake generates a data structure of the interdependencies > (the g switch) which by default outputs a graphviz .dot file. > The -u depexp tells BitBake to instead draw the data structure using the > depexp GUI (lib/bb/ui/depexp.py). > > Extending this GUI to offer a graph view might be interesting, the > difficulty will be in helping folks navigate the enormous graph... > > Regards, > Joshua > -- > Joshua Lock > Yocto Project "Johannes factotum" > Intel Open Source Technology Centre -- Yi Qingliang niqingli...@insigma.com.cn https://niqingliang2003.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
