Hi!

Great, I'm always happy about a good excuse for frosty beverages with nice 
folks (and that we found what seems to be the most suitable home for this 
contribution).

Cheers,
Fabian

On 20.06.2011, at 22:57, Wim Jongman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Frosty Beverages will cover it! Good luck with the widget and congratulations 
> to the Zest project for this great contribution.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Wim
> 
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Stephan Schwiebert 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> first of all, thanks for the positive feedback! 
> 
> Hyperlinking is not supported yet, but it sounds like a great idea, so I will 
> add it in the future. Cloudio was initially implemented as a visualization 
> component for a natural language processing framework. I think it is most 
> useful in (simple) data visualization, at least this was the initial idea, 
> and this is what I would like to expand on. Thus, I'm thinking that it would 
> really fit into Zest, as it shares the same goals - it might be less visible 
> there, but it could be combined with existing Zest components, and I could 
> also add new visualizations.
> 
> I'm sorry for the back and forth - I really didn't want to cause work for 
> nothing, and Fabian and I hope that we can make up for it, maybe with a 
> frosty beverage at EclipseCon Europe...
> 
> All the best,
> Stephan
> 
> Am 19.06.2011 23:38, schrieb Wim Jongman:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I looked at the widget examples. Nice work. Do you provide some kind of 
>> hyperlinking? What kind of use cases do you envision for this widget?
>> 
>> I think the Nebula project would give it more visibility.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Wim
>> 
>> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 2:49 AM, Fabian Steeg <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi folks!
>> 
>> Stephan and I have been talking about contributing this to Eclipse in the 
>> previous days. Our initial idea was Nebula. Only today it occurred to me 
>> that this is actually a visualization component, and therefore would be a 
>> perfect fit for Zest (http://www.eclipse.org/gef/zest/). So I told Stephan 
>> that we'd be very interested in this contribution. Any thoughts on what 
>> makes most sense?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Fabian
>> 
>>> Hi Stephan,
>>> 
>>> It looks very nice. I skimmed through the TagCloud.java source which I 
>>> assume is the main class and it looks neatly programmed and well 
>>> documented. I will try to give it a spin real soon. I'm sure Tom will jump 
>>> in with the details but you need to file a bug. 
>>> 
>>> Here is the tracking bug I used to file the Oscilloscope widget. Just take 
>>> that as an example. 
>>> 
>>> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=316685
>>> 
>>> This will start the IP examination process.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Wim Jongman
>>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Stephan Schwiebert 
>>>> <sschwieb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Hello Nebula Developers,
>>>> 
>>>> I was wondering if you are interested in a widget I wrote - it is a tag 
>>>> cloud visualization inspired by wordle (http://www.wordle.net/), which I 
>>>> was developing for a project at my                           university. 
>>>> It still requires some more testing and documentation (and 
>>>> performance/memory improvements), but nevertheless it is usable already. 
>>>> If you'd like to take a look, you will find it at 
>>>> https://github.com/sschwieb/Cloudio - maven will generate the core plug-in 
>>>> as well as a demo RCP application, but to get a first impression, some 
>>>> screenshots and code snippets can be found in the wiki 
>>>> (https://github.com/sschwieb/Cloudio/wiki).
>>>> 
>>>> The tag cloud itself is customizable in many ways - fonts, font sizes, 
>>>> colors and rotation can be defined for each rendered string, and the 
>>>> layout algorithm can also be modified easily. I also implemented a 
>>>> TagCloudViewer, which supports label- and content providers, and added 
>>>> support for zooming as well as mouse- and selection listeners. The licence 
>>>> already is EPL, and the widget does not make use of any third party 
>>>> libraries or other external code.
>>>> 
>>>> Please let me know what you're thinking - if the widget would generally 
>>>> fit into Nebula, I would spend some more time to meet your requirements.
>>>> 
>>>> All the best,
>>>> Stephan Schwiebert
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