On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Daniel P�rez Alc�zar wrote: > First of all, thak you for all of your comments. > > As I can see, vey nice people here in dia-list (funny people at least) > :-) > > Your advice has been very useful and now I know where I must begin. > > About this last comment, I have something to say. The solution that > Jason explains is not what I like. What I liked was something > graphical.... something nice. There's not very much schedulling in > what I liked. I want to generate diagrams of subjects which the user > would give to the program (or dia or anything), and it simply would > draw to the user the connections and other subjects which are > requisite of the subjects which the user entered. The job is not very > difficult. It's more important to have a nice diagram of the > subjects.
You need to remember that Dia doesn't have any diagram layout builtin. You cannot simply say "Class A requires Class B" and expect Dia to place the objects in reasonable positions. If it's really all about the pretty diagram, I would actually suggest using Dot (from the Graphviz package). It could work like this: The student enters a list of classes on a web page. Dot renders a diagram of those classes and their prerequisites. The resulting webpage displays the diagram together with ways to add and remove classes. Diagram layout is no simple problem, and not a problem that Dia attempts to solve. > Even no DB backend is needed. For this, I have but one question: How many classes will this system handle? -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| H�rdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
