[Pharo-project] Concept demonstration - Interactive Roassal for constructing models

[Ben Coman]

Following on from recent pharo-project 'Roassal Survey' posts which asked for features for Roassal to be a universal diagram tool, I have cobbled together a concept demo. I was quite surprised and pleased that I was able to achieve this over the weekend - which I think is a testament to the potential power of the clean design that Alexandre has achieved for Roassal. Glamour also helped ease the way.

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cheers -ben

Operation is quite basic - only interactively adding nodes and applying different layouts. Adding edges between nodes is still to go. Previously Roassal has been used only for scripting, so there are some bugs in the way I've forced it to operate, but I thought I'd release as early as possible to garner feedback and interest. Perhaps I get lucky and a Fuel expert finds this interesting. Help with moving the drawings to file and back would be appreciated. The attached package Glamour-Roassal-Interactive-BenComan.3 is based off Moose 4.7, tested against a fresh copy downloaded 2012-10-03 which contained:

Glamour-Roassal-Interactive-BenComan.3.mcz
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