HotDraw for version diagrams

> Has anyone used HotDraw to generate pundle version diagrams?
>
> The "graph versions" option from a version browser is useful for  
> tracking specific problems, but horizontal expansion makes it  
> rather cumbersome to see large trees containing hundreds of  
> versions. A vertical hierarchy diagram drawn with HotDraw would be  
> nicer--if it can also be printed or exported.
>
> The quickest solution I've come up with is to generate XML that can  
> be read by a program I downloaded somewhat randomly called AddFlow  
> by Lassalle Technologies. AddFlow reorganizes the diagram into a  
> nice but not ideal hierarchy diagram and it exports to easily  
> distributable EMF files. I'd prefer a native Smalltalk solution if  
> one is available.
>
> Paul Baumann
>
>
>
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> Wonderful! I'm glad I asked.
>
> It reads like it something I could use. Michael Meyer's thesis draft
> shows that a lot of work has been put into it. I see it was under
> development within just the past couple days. The links are to 110MB
> compressed files. Any idea when new parcel files might be available for
> people that aren't members of the SCG StORE research repository?
>
> Paul Baumann
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adrian Kuhn [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 2:20 PM
> To: Paul Baumann
> Cc: Vwnc List
> Subject: Re: HotDraw for version diagrams
> Importance: High
>
> You can use Mondrian to draw the graph, it's a scriptable visualization
> framework written in Smalltalk by Michael Meyer. The following code
> snippet draws a class hierarchy, and I am sure you can easy adapt it to
> draw the version graph
>
> view := Mondrian.ViewRenderer new.
> view nodes: Smalltalk allClasses.
> view edgesFrom: [ :each | each superclass ].
> view treeLayout.
> view open
>
> More information see
>
> http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/mondrian/mondriandayoctober18berne/
>
> Gruss, Adrian
>
> On  23. Oct 2006, at 17:47, Paul Baumann wrote:
>
> > Has anyone used HotDraw to generate pundle version diagrams?
> >
> > The "graph versions" option from a version browser is useful for
> > tracking specific problems, but horizontal expansion makes it rather
> > cumbersome to see large trees containing hundreds of versions. A
> > vertical hierarchy diagram drawn with HotDraw would be nicer--if it
> > can also be printed or exported.
> >
> > The quickest solution I've come up with is to generate XML that can be
>
> > read by a program I downloaded somewhat randomly called AddFlow by
> > Lassalle Technologies. AddFlow reorganizes the diagram into a nice but
>
> > not ideal hierarchy diagram and it exports to easily distributable EMF
>
> > files. I'd prefer a native Smalltalk solution if one is available.
> >
> > Paul Baumann
>  
>  
>  
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