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[hidden email]: Port & transmission in Mondrian
http://code.google.com/p/moose-technology/issues/detail?id=499Hi Alex,
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Previous discussion:
What we did in Glamour was to attach to each Presentation a kind of default
interaction. In your example, I would make #mouseEnter, #mouseClick ...
default ports that are populated when the corresponding interactions happen
on a graph element.
Then of course, these ports will belong to graph elements. Like this
transmissions are created between the ports of a graph element. Perhaps
there will also be a need to identify graph elements by name so that you
can refer to them from outside the context of a script.
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Previous discussion:
Why not having ports that belong to an interaction instead? Consider the
following script:
view nodes: (1 to: 1000).
Figure selection will imply a transmission between the root and each of
these nodes. It could be a single transmission between 'root interaction'
and the unique interaction of the nodes?
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Doru answer:
At least two reasons. First, the ports are not just for transmitting
information, but ports also allow you to store arbitrary values that model
the graph element, and thus you can model the state of a visualization
(including side-effects). Second, using ports you will be able to let the
shape populate ports by default without writing any explicit interaction
(only write transmission when you want to deal with them).
Now, about we can be smart about transmissions and do what we do for
shapes: we share the object between multiple graph elements. For this, we
will just need a lookup of the origins instead of hardcoding them. Actually
in Glamour, we have:
GLMTransmission>>originatesAt: aPort
and thus, you can have a smart transmission that performs a more complex
check by checking if the port is part of any elements from a collection.
Like this you will have only one the transmission object. You could write:
view nodes: #(1 2 3) labeled: #interestingNodes.
view nodes: #(5 6 7) labeled: #otherNodes.
view transmitTo: #otherNodes fromAny: #interestingNodes port: #selection.
Cheers,
Doru
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