Re: connection point at the end of a line

["Sameer Sahasrabuddhe" <sameerds gmail com>]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Lars Ræder Clausen <lars raeder dk> wrote:

> > 1) A line that gets routed around ... we have a zig-zag line for that.
> > 2) A hyperedge, or something more general, a bunch of lines all
> > connected at one point. The direction of arrows can be settable. Here,
> > you can't "disconnect" one of the lines, you can only remove it
> > entirely from that hyperedge object.
>
> You mean something like the Bus object from the Network sheet, but more
> generic? That could be useful.  Also possibly:
>
> 3) A connection object -- a circle with only the middle (main)
> connection point. Easier to move and connect to than the normal circle,
> since you'd avoid all the extra connection points.

I think this is better than the what I meant by a hyperedge in (2).
This solves the problem of setting arrow directions, because the user
can set each arrow separately. This object also has a much simpler
definition.

Sameer.
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