Re: [Boa Constr] UML Topological sort, where to put it?

[Riaan B. <riaan@e.co.za>]

Hi Mike,

Very, very, cool! Huge improvement!

I've fixed some bugs (not in your code!) that handles loading and
saving of positions, please do a cvs update.
 
"Mike C. Fletcher" wrote:
> 
> Attached find a module implementing a topologically sorted UML view
> subclassed from Views.OGLViews.UMLView   The topological sorting makes the
> initial view of the UML diagram considerably more user-friendly, as the
> diagram is laid out such that superclasses are always above their
> subclasses.  I've also added layout logic such that the scrolled window is
> sized to the diagram (it might be preferable to size to the maximum of the
> diagram or physical window size).
> 
> There are certainly ways you could improve on this formatting, but for me,
> this is sufficient to make the view usable as an overview mechanism, so I
> don't have any plans to improve the formatting further.

Deep hierarchies a handled better than wide ones (look at Companions.py)
No ideas from my side how to improve this tho.

> 
> To see the module in action, modify Controllers.py line 170 to include
> UMLView2.UMLView2 in the list of AdditionalViews as indicated by Riaan in
> his previous message (yes, your instructions were helpful, thanks Riaan).

I'll add them to the Docs.

> 
> Enjoy yourselves,
> Mike
> 

Should I merge your changes into UMLView or do still want to change
something?

Thanks again for the contribution!
-- 
Riaan Booysen
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