Thanks guys - downloading as I sleep :)
Regards
mike
Tim Leslie wrote:
> It sounds like what you're after would be better done with the graphviz
> set of programs.
>
> http://www.graphviz.org/
>
> I've used it a couple of times to do various things and it's a pretty
> amazing package. I don't know of any python libraries for it, but I havn't
> really looked. Let us know if this meets your needs.
>
> Cheers
>
> Tim
Gary Ruben wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> Take a look at pydot <http://dkbza.org/pydot.html>. I think John Hunter
> may have used this in the matplotlib manual.
> There's an ER diagram in the Graphviz (which pydot wraps) examples:
> <http://www.graphviz.org/Gallery/undirected/ER.html>
> Enjoy the conference. I'm too cheap to attend :-(
> Gary Ruben (from Melbourne)
>
> Mike Dewhirst wrote:
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>> Hi all
>>
>> Just dropped in to your list after drawing a blank in your archives. I
>> am attending an Open Source Developers Conference in Melbourne as we
>> speak and got a referral to you from an admirer.
>>
>> I'm looking for a Python (I'm new to python and graphics sw) module to
>> visualise subsets of a database of related entities by printing boxes
>> joined by lines.
>>
>> The entities are linked with named n:m relationships and I'd like to
>> select one and display it in a box (with the entity name) and all
>> related entities likewise in boxes linked to each other by lines
>> representing the relationships tagged with the names of those
>> relationships.
>>
>> I'm thinking I need some clever stuff to ensure as few lines as
>> possible cross and mess up the visualisation.
>>
>> At first glance I would say we have a mismatch and your very
>> impressive software is probably overkill for what I want. If I'm on
>> the wrong tram with matplotlib I'd appreciate a redirect. Otherwise,
>> if anyone is prepared to say matplotlib is the way to go I'll download
>> it and start playing.
>>
>> Thanks heaps
>>
>> mike
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