Re: [zvtm-devel] ZVTM, JUNG, and Swing Mashup

[Emmanuel P. <emm...@in...>]

Jeffrey,

It looks like you indeed need to embed fairly complex Swing components in your workspace. Piccolo2D should be a better solution in that respect. Integration of Jung layout algorithms in a Piccolo2D canvas is likely as straightforward as it was in ZVTM, especially if using Jung 2.

cheers,
--
Emmanuel Pietriga
INRIA Saclay - In Situ
http://pages.saclay.inria.fr/emmanuel.pietriga

On 4 avr. 2012, at 22:15, Jeffrey Guenther wrote:

> After much more looking and digging, it appears Piccolo2D will provide the drawing features that I need. It has good support for Swing components as evidenced by its examples. The code base is aging, but should be suffice.
> 
> It still leaves me with the problem of using JUNG layouts for the graph, but that is a problem for a different mailling list and day :-)
> 
> Thank you to all who responded.
> Jeff
> 
> From: "Jeffrey Guenther" <jgu...@sf...>
> To: zvt...@li...
> Sent: Wednesday, 4 April, 2012 11:52:39
> Subject: [zvtm-devel] ZVTM, JUNG, and Swing Mashup
> 
> Hello, 
> 
> I have a question that I asked Emmanuel directly that I will pass on to the community.
> 
> I am trying to create a node-based programming environment like Blender's node UI, or Houndini's procedural UI.
> 
> I would like to have:
> 	• panning, zooming, and semantic zooming as made possible by ZVTM
> 	• the ability to use JUNG to layout the nodes, though some of the node layouts could be user defined
> 	• The nodes should consist of Swing components, so I don't have to create all of my own controls.
> 	• Animate the positions, and other properties of the nodes.
> 	• Eventually, I would like to support multi-touch interaction as well, but that is a longer term goal.
> I realize that neither ZVTM, JUNG, or Swing have been designed to make this easy to do. I am working on a research project that depends on this sort of interaction and we are prepared to invest the time to develop this soft of UI library, or mashup of libraries.
> 
> Has anyone done anything like this before, or know of a project that does? I realize I can do this with a certain amount of clever hacks, but this code needs to stable and extensible.
> 
> Any and all help would be wonderful.
> 
> Thanks, 
> Jeffrey Guenther
> 
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