[Moose-dev] Re: Mondrian to Roassal: TreeMap

You mean I could specify a sorting block and Roassal then draws the shapes in the resulting order? I'm not sure - when would I set this block and when would the sorting happen?

I don't understand the inner workings of Roassel so good yet: Where exactly in the code are shapes drawn? At the moment, what makes a shape be in front (on the z-axis) of another?

In the case of tree maps, it would be much better to construct nested nodes, rather than a flat graph. This would provide the nesting by default. I agree, but then we would have to change the inner workings of Roassal for this specific case? Or how would we go on about doing this? From my side - I have nested nodes in my model, I tell Roassal (or Mondrian) about the nesting via the edges. Regarding zOrder, its usefulness comes when it comes to drawing edges. Btw, zOrder does not have to be mandatory, but for it to work efficiently, you need to be able to store this as a property in the graph element. Yes, for layouting the TreeMap with Mondrian I added a zOrder setter to MONode, this way I had control over it (had the exact same problem, but it was solvable because MONode already had the zOrder property). Cheers, Doru -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing has its own flow" _______________________________________________ Moose-dev mailing list Moose-dev(a)iam.unibe.ch https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev _______________________________________________ Moose-dev mailing list Moose-dev(a)iam.unibe.ch https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev