Re: Dia extensions

[Daniel Pérez Alcázar <danielpa wanadoo es>]

Thanks to everybody. I have now an idea of where to begin.

Dani.

Lars Clausen wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Daniel Pérez Alcázar wrote:
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> > First of all, thak you for all of your comments.
> >
> > As I can see, vey nice people here in dia-list (funny people at least)
> > :-)
> >
> > Your advice has been very useful and now I know where I must begin.
> >
> > About this last comment, I have something to say. The solution that
> > Jason explains is not what I like. What I liked was something
> > graphical.... something nice. There's not very much schedulling in
> > what I liked. I want to generate diagrams of subjects which the user
> > would give to the program (or dia or anything), and it simply would
> > draw to the user the connections and other subjects which are
> > requisite of the subjects which the user entered. The job is not very
> > difficult. It's more important to have a nice diagram of the
> > subjects.
> >    
>
> You need to remember that Dia doesn't have any diagram layout builtin.  You
> cannot simply say "Class A requires Class B" and expect Dia to place the
> objects in reasonable positions.
>
> If it's really all about the pretty diagram, I would actually suggest using
> Dot (from the Graphviz package).  It could work like this:
>
> The student enters a list of classes on a web page.
> Dot renders a diagram of those classes and their prerequisites.
> The resulting webpage displays the diagram together with ways to add and
>  remove classes.
>
> Diagram layout is no simple problem, and not a problem that Dia attempts to
> solve. 
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> > Even  no DB backend is needed.
> >    
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> For this, I have but one question:  How many classes will this system handle?
>
> -Lars
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