3 Mar
2010
3 Mar
'10
4:43 p.m.
On 3 mars 2010, at 15:38, Cyrille Delaunay wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking to do this customizable DistributionMap and I have several questions:
-> When you say 'customizable', I understand that what should be customizable
are:
-> kind of properties we want to display
-> Color associated to each property
Am i right? I guess the kind of the parts (Packages , classes ...) and elements (Classes
, methods ) to display, will depend on the moose-group we first clicked-on (to launch to
visualization).
-> What kind of property can be display in a DistributionMap? In the distributionMap
paper, I saw that , for example, properties could be 'the owner of a file', or
also the result of a clustering algorithm like 'linguistic concepts'. What kind of
property should be propose by the wizard?
-> Is it better to have a wizard-based customizable map or a
full-dynamically-customizable visualization like the one of SystemComplexity ?
Indeed, it's easier to do a wizard in this case, simply because we dont know which
property we want to visualize (contrary to metrics in SystemComplexity).
For colors, it's a bit different: I do remember something about the order of colors
and I think a default set is good enough.
Take a look at MODistributionMap, it uses blocks to actually customize parts and
properties based upon the group.
You can also take a look at DistributionMapExample, a simpler but working distribution map
(no serialization).
MODistributionMap>>initializeWith: aGroup property: anotherBlock partitioning:
aBlock
self createElementsFor: aGroup.
self createPropertiesWith: anotherBlock.
self createPartsFor: aBlock
So I guess that all you is some text fields to enter a block or a symbol to extract parts
and properties
--
Simon