On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Andreas Neumann <[email protected]> wrote: > HI > > If you are thinking about designing a GUI for a graphical workbench, I would > definitely have a look at the way FME is handling it. I think it requires a > combination of both approaches: > > Normally it is a graph-style (connect-the-boxes) GUI > > but often it requires in addition: > > multiple input/output, control flows, where elements from the patch-style > GUI would come in - eg when patching an attribute from one source or > transformer to a different attribute in a destination dataset or > transformer. > > I believe in FME (Safe software) - which is the most well-known GUI modeler > in GIS, it is a combination of both approaches with additional flow controls > transformers (e.g. tester with branches).
Andreas, maybe I get it wrong, but isn't the purpose of FME somewhere else? As far as I understand, FME is an extract-transform-load (ETL) tool for spatial data, however here we aim for a tool for automating workflow for analyses. Surely there is some overlap between these two, but for now it would be better to focus on the analytical part - proceeding one step at a time ensures that we are not designing something overly complex. Regards Martin _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
