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Auto layout support in Graphiti [message #554595]

Mon, 23 August 2010 16:15

Shenxue Zhou

Messages: 60
Registered: July 2009

Member

Hi Michael and team,

Currently there doesn't seem to be auto layout support in Graphiti. Using the JPA entity editor as an example, when user opens the entity editor and decides to show all existing entities in the diagram, most of the entities are stacked on top of each other and it takes considerable amount of effort to re-replace the entity nodes in the diagram.

Would you consider supporting auto layout in the future?

Thanks!

Shenxue

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Re: Auto layout support in Graphiti [message #554700 is a reply to message #554595]

Tue, 24 August 2010 06:52

Michael Wenz

Messages: 1931
Registered: July 2009
Location: Walldorf, Germany

Senior Member

Hi Shenxue,

although Graphiti itself comes without an autolayout mechamisn, it is open
to use any existing ones. There is for example an auto layout mechanism
provided by GEF that you could very easily use. Please see our FAQ for a
short docu how to use that:
http://www.eclipse.org/graphiti/developers/faq.php

-Michael

"Shenxue Zhou" <shenxue.zhou@oracle.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Michael and team,
>
> Currently there doesn't seem to be auto layout support in Graphiti. Using
> the JPA entity editor as an example, when user opens the entity editor and
> decides to show all existing entities in the diagram, most of the entities
> are stacked on top of each other and it takes considerable amount of
> effort to re-replace the entity nodes in the diagram.
>
> Would you consider supporting auto layout in the future?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Shenxue

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