On Jan 12 2013 6:11 PM, Tom Easterday wrote: > On Jan 11, 2013, at 6:12 PM, andy pugh <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 10 January 2013 00:08, Peter Jensen <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Rockhopper_Web_Server >> >> I only just got round to looking at this. >> It's fairly cool. >> >> However, what surprised me was to find that you have just quietly >> and >> with no fanfare embedded a HAL graphing utility? > > It is quite cool and extremely helpful to see HAL config represented > in this way. The lack of fanfare is partly because if the HAL graph > gets very complicated it becomes unreadable. A more sophisticated > algorithm is needed to keep the lines from piling up on each other. > We looked at a bunch of them, but only the tools that cost money (big > money in some cases) were up to the task. We have a very complicated > HAL config for the plasma machine > (http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?GantryPlasmaMachine) and it > turns out to be completely unreadable using the imbedded tool. > > That said, for many hal configs, or if you are just beginning to > write one, this view is extremely useful.
a LONG time ago I used a CASE tool called Khoros which had a visual programming language called Cantata. It was open source, but they changed the license and and it was not longer free for research and non-profit purposes... Bummer deal that. It was later bought by Visiquest (and it costs big bucks)... Recently I learned about VisTrails <http://www.sci.utah.edu/software/41-nsf/40-vistrails -- the vistrails.org link seems to be down>. You might be able to hack the glyph based interface to provide a similar interface to what you have in the web interface, and it might provide a better tool for managing the complexity. Not sure though, but I thought it was worth a mention. EBo -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_123012 _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
