State chart layout

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#2 State chart layout

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Owner: Tony Cureington

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Updated: 2004-04-01

Created: 2004-03-31

Creator: Markus Elfring

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Can states in the charts be placed on circles?
I assume that it can become difficult to draw a lot of lines in big transition diagrams.

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Markus Elfring - 2004-04-01

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Markus Elfring - 2004-04-01

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I propose that states can be grouped with their relationships by this layout feature into "bubbles".

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Tony Cureington - 2004-04-09

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Using state diagrams back in 1996 to design FSMs was a
challenge on 640X480 resolution monitors, so I stuck with
state tables. When reviewing the FSM on paper, there is
little argument that diagrams are better than tables. Being
able to print the FSMs in diagram format would be useful,
I just don't have the time to devote to this, but I will
accept source code contributions implementing this.

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Markus Elfring - 2004-11-20

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Would you like to reuse anything from these tools?
- http://boost.org/libs/graph/doc/circle_layout.html

- http://jgraph.com/images/gxl2svg.png
http://jgraph.com/layout.html

- http://mvdemo01.ilog.com/layoutapplet/

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