Submitted by Paul_J_Miller on 2018/01/27 18:16
There is a program called Graphviz for graphical visualisation.  It is free and open source.
 
It has been integrated into several other programs.  It is useful for creating graphical networks.
 
It would be nice if it could be integrated into InfoQube. It could even be used to display networks of items and their connections.
 
Basically you write a 'source' file telling Graphviz what is connected to what else and when the program interprets this file it produces a graphical representation of the network in various formats.
 
I find it very useful.  It is available at www.graphviz.org/ .
 

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Hi Paul,
 
I had seen Graphviz a while back and yes, it is on the back burner for a possible integration
 
FWIW, the current IQ Surface does not do what you want ?
 
 
Have a great day !
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

Paul_J_Miller

2018/01/28 06:47

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Yes Surface is quite good and is certainly a step in the right direction but have you seen the plethora of different styles and the range of options available in Graphviz ?
 
It can do virtually any sort of network diagram you can think of.
 

Hi Paul,
 
How would you see this integration taking place ? 
  1. Export an item hierarchy as .DOT format to be used by another program
  2. HTML pane content with liked editor (such as the current handwriting feature)
  3. Suggestions...
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

Paul_J_Miller

2018/01/28 13:46

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[quote=Pierre_Admin]
Hi Paul,
 
How would you see this integration taking place ? 
  1. Export an item hierarchy as .DOT format to be used by another program
  2. HTML pane content with liked editor (such as the current handwriting feature)
  3. Suggestions...
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 
[/quote]
 
1. Might be useful but the surface does an adequate job of displaying networks of items.
 
2. Hmm ... I don't know how it would work but it would have to have some way of editing the source file and then when you were done with the source it would go back to the default behaviour of displaying the interpreted version of the source.  An 'edit' mode and a 'view' mode.