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Auto layout support in Graphiti [message #563802]

Mon, 23 August 2010 16:15

Shenxue Zhou

Messages: 60
Registered: July 2009

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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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Re: Auto layout support in Graphiti [message #563833 is a reply to message #563802]

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
news:i4u6qh$bos$1@build.eclipse.org...
> 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 #629310 is a reply to message #563802]

Mon, 27 September 2010 18:34

Hauke Fuhrmann

Messages: 333
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Am 23.08.10 18:15, schrieb Shenxue Zhou:
> 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?

Shenxue,

the KIELER Project is an open source automatic layout infrastructure for
Eclipse. It is currently interfaced with GMF, but we are working on a
Graphiti integration.

Have a look at our project website for details and at recent
publications linked there.

http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/rtsys/kieler/

Cheers,
Hauke

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Re: Auto layout support in Graphiti [message #629616 is a reply to message #629310]

Tue, 28 September 2010 23:11

Shenxue Zhou

Messages: 60
Registered: July 2009

Member

Hauke Fuhrmann wrote on Mon, 27 September 2010 14:34

Hauke,

That's great! Please keep us informed about your progress in integrating KIELER with Graphiti. I'm sure many users will benefit from it.

Shenxue

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