On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Alexander Larsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Carlos Puchol wrote:
>>
>> > how hard would it be to do hierarchical graphs?
>> > as in uml state diagrams, with other state diagrams inside
>> > one of this states?
>> >
>> > i'd be interested in contributing to something like this.
>> > how hard is it, where do i start?
>>
>> How do you mean? Editing inside the object in the diagram or clicking to
>> get at the internal diagram?
>
> yes, i guess there are two (at least) approaches to do
> hierarchy, not necessarily exclusive of each other.
> here is my view of these approaches:
>
> - let states (round-corened boxes or something) have other
> states inside. move the parent, the child moves with it.
> technically one has to be a parent and the other is a child,
> not just "happens to be drawn inside".
An object with a group object inside?
> - have a special kind of state (that can be inside another state)
> that has others inside, but clicking on it launches another
> window where it itself is the outmost state. both windows
> are editing a "portion" of the graph (a tree node and all of its
> descendants, up to other "special" states).
An interesting idea. This could essentially be a seperate view, but one
that only shows the subgraph (group). Wouldn't be too hard, but not
entirely trivial either.
-Lars
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