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.
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>>As I can see, vey nice people here in dia-list (funny people at least)
>>:-)
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>>Your advice has been very useful and now I know where I must begin.
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>>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.
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>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.
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>If it's really all about the pretty diagram, I would actually suggest using
>Dot (from the Graphviz package).  It could work like this:
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>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.
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>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?
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>-Lars
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