Denis Bueno wrote:
Do you need to update positions of the units in real time? Do they
even evolve over time, or are you just trying to visualise?
If it's the latter, you might just take a collection of units and
connections between them, output them in the graphviz [0] format, and
see the resulting drawing. Graphviz is for visualising arbitrary
graphs, and it's quite good at it.
If you're thinking of writing games, then this suggestion likely won't
help; but you didn't specify anything about real-time update, so I
thought I'd mention it.
Well, for starters, take a look at KLogic. It's a nice program, but it
has two small problems:
1. Sometimes it produces outright incorrect results.
2. It crashes with extreme frequency.
I'd like to write a similar program in Haskell that does not have these
properties.
Of course, simulating a bunch of logic gates is a pretty trivial
programming task. All the difficulty is in making a usable UI.
I have ideas for several other programs which would require more or less
the same kind of UI - you add things to the screen and wire them up. The
things in question are different. But it's still things that need wiring
up. I was wondering if any tools already exist to tackle this kind of
thing...?
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