Thanks for your detailed look at it. Im glad you got something working, but I agree its not great it was so confusing at first. Youre right that its a DAG, like how many flowchart tools represent the data.
> grouping mechanism
This would be cool. I want to nail down the basics before adding more features. For most of my use cases I havent found it to be a show stopper, but once it can support larger graphs it will be required.
> the layout I choose also encodes information
Thats true however Im trying to make a tool optimized for speed. Manually adjusting layout doesnt help with that. It should feel more like editing a text doc where everything is done from the keyboard. However, I could see adding layout adjustment as a final step in producing some visualization you want to share.
Thanks again. And please reply here with a project, or email/tweet me (bio).
I do recognize that this is an early sneak peek and it will be interesting to see how it evolves. The thought about grouping wasn't merely to deal with larger graphs, but rather if it was the core way in which organization happens, I believe that it would 'click' in the user's mind and produce autolayouts that more closely resemble what the user had in mind.
> grouping mechanism
This would be cool. I want to nail down the basics before adding more features. For most of my use cases I havent found it to be a show stopper, but once it can support larger graphs it will be required.
> the layout I choose also encodes information
Thats true however Im trying to make a tool optimized for speed. Manually adjusting layout doesnt help with that. It should feel more like editing a text doc where everything is done from the keyboard. However, I could see adding layout adjustment as a final step in producing some visualization you want to share.
Thanks again. And please reply here with a project, or email/tweet me (bio).