[Moose-dev] Re: [Pharo-project] Mondrian: present and future

Hi All, Just to give some news about Mondrian. Together with colleagues from Bern, Lille and Santiago, I have been working on this visualization engine for quite some times. Although it contains some important bugs (e.g., popupView) it is fairly stable and usable. The current version is 2.0-beta.7. Mondrian is slowly maturing. A short summary of the discussion I had with Doru and Stéphane today. Some of the features I would like to see in for Version 3.0 are: - scalable spring layout (also known as force based layout): this is a very simple and nice layout that produces amazing results - add layers: embedding a rendering or a part of it in a layer. Layers could then be iteratively activated and desactivared. The idea is to enable the construction of scripts in a very iterative and incremental way.

- having a small core embeddable in your application - making Mondrian load graphiz scripts - having a better help system (à la ProfStef) - dedicated chapter for Pharo By Example Volume 2 - exporting as PDF - anti-aliasing This probably will not happen today or tomorrow, but I just feel necessary to share this roadmap with you. Some other features are wanted. Using Rome is one. Open GL is another. There are plenty of rooms for a very cool visualization engine. Probably during the holiday period I will consolidate the current version by fixing remaining bugs and produce 2.0. Bug tracker: http://code.google.com/p/moose-technology/ Web page: http://www.moosetechnology.org/tools/mondrian Let's render our dream!