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Re: [buckminster-dev] Dependency Visualization 
Wait a minute,
EMF? Zest, sure, but I would hope we could keep that behemoth out of there, we're talking a configuration management tool here. 

Best regards,
 Dann



Guillaume Chatelet wrote:

Wow Johannes ! This looks great : )
UI is actually an issue in Buckminster and EMF + Zest will do a good job here. Very cool : ) 

Best regards,
Guillaume
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Johannes Utzig <mail@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:mail@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: 

    Hi,

    as discussed in
    http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.tools.buckminster/msg01102.html
    I started working on a zest based component dependency viewer for
    buckminster.
    I just finished an early prototype and thought it's enough to  get
    at least an idea and ask you guys what kinds of features you'd like
    to see in it.

    Currently this is (for sake of simplicity) registered as an editor
    for previously saved .bom files.
    It consists of 3 areas

     -navigation tree that shows a tree of the component dependencies
    and is used to drill down on the graph. The selection is linked to
    the graph viewer so if you select a component in the tree, only this
    specific subtree is revealed in the graph.

     -graph viewer. This is very basic at the moment. It shows the
    dependency graph with some icons depending on the component type and
    highlights the direct dependencies of the selected component.
    Unresolved nodes are shown in red, a double-click on a node reveals
    the node's cspec and that's about it :)

     -settings section. This section lets you choose between some layout
    algorithms and filters (only platform component filter so far).
    Filters are applied to both the navigation tree and the graph viewer.

    I came up with the following things that should be added:
    -better highlighting
    -tooltips and properties view that reveal more details of each component
    -smart highlighting of paths through the graph (shortest path to
    root request for example)
    -regex based filter (black and white list filter)
    -dependency reports generated from a bom with some nice pictures
    -zooming
    -image export

    Now I'd be very interested to hear what's on your wish-list for
    dependency visualization, so that I can plan on the real implementation.
    Attached is a screenshot and a bundle.jar including source code.
    Just throw it in your dropins folder to try, but make sure that zest
    is installed.
    Keep in mind, this is just an early prototype for demonstration and
    my first steps with zest, so the code is super ugly at the moment...

    Best regards,
    Johannes

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