HI Alexandre, what is the current status of Mondrian on Squeak? I've always been intrigued by Mondrian, what would be the best approach for getting it going on Squeak? I am mostly interested using Mondrians rendering and input-event handling inside my own widgets, not OB or other windowing tools. How hard would it be to extricate just the Form-drawing and input-capability of the Mondrian core from the OB window widgetry that seems to be included in the package (at least, the last time I looked)? - Chris On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Alexandre Bergel <alexandre@bergel.eu> wrote:
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!
Cheers, Alexandre
NB: sorry for this cross mailing list post. -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel  http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.
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