If you are going to do that, you should see the Graig Latta work. I copy paste an email from me and him:



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Hi Graig. First, let me apologize for sending you this private email. Please tell me if it is correct.

I am quite interested in having a system similar to Spoon. Actually, I want something more related to LOOM, but Spoon is also part of my "state of the art" ;)

I saw that your visualizations are very very cool. I saw this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCwidGFkn4Q
and then I see this link: http://www.caida.org/tools/visualization/walrus/
and finally I see
http://netjam.org/spoon/objects.graph.gz

I am working with Pharo for the moment. I wanted to ask if do you think it is possible to make your kind of visualizations for a PharoCore image. Do I need a specific VM?� what should I do/code in the image side?� Any hints is more than welcome.

regarding the objects.graph.gz, you autogenerated that from the smalltlak image and then use it as input for walrus ?

Thank you very much in advance,

Mariano

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Sorry but walrus says "Walrus is a standalone application and not an API. It cannot be incorporated into other applications."

So...how could you do it?�� maybe because the graph are text files, you checked them and then tried to autogenerate one from an smalltalk image?

thanks again.


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Hi Mariano!

� � Yes, I learned the Walrus file format, and generated Walrus files
from the Smalltalk virtual machine simulator. It's odd that you couldn't
load the objects.graph into Walrus... perhaps Walrus has changed in the
meantime?

� � Making these files from the simulator doesn't require any special
virtual machine. I believe I included the Walrus support in the last
Spoon release. Please let me know if you can't find it.


� � thanks for writing!

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