Hi everyone! Well, here I am announcing the resulting project of my GSoC experience during the [your] summer: smallUML, a project to help us building diagrams and sharing them with any package of code. My mentor was Stephane Ducasse and my co-mentor Geert Claes, so thanks to them for the guidance up to now, and also to Fernando Olivero who helped me a lot (hope to do some coding with you at ESUG! :P).
And then open the Diagram Browser of the current little examples evaluating:
DiagramDrawingDocumentation openDiagramBrowser� .
This is beta and I'm still working on it, my work will continue after GSoC's deadline, so of course your welcome to give some feedback and think about what features would you like it to have and if you're confortable with the current features. It would be really nice if this helped to get all Pharo projects more documented, with visual diagrams that help understanding them at a glance.
Talking about that... the current features are:
Open a Diagram Browser for an existing Category Diagrams Holder (this is a class ment to hold the created diagrams and there should be one per category, for now; you can browse DiagramDrawingDocumentation to see an example)
Create and edit diagrams programatically describing them with "diagram code" (the diagram code it's just a protocol of methods meant to describe diagrams, you can see some diagram code browsing DiagramDrawingDocumentation methods or each Class Box in the Diagram Browser)
Every diagram you build through the Diagram Browser it's saved as "diagram code", so you can share it as code that will reproduce your diagram :) That means that diagrams can 'travel' along it's package when you commit your changes with Monticello! And then they can be edited by anybody, they're not just a pretty picture.
You can export your diagram as a PNG picture or you can export it's "diagram code" as a workspace.
Only Class Diagrams can be built for now.
Class Boxes of a class diagram can be dragged to be easily positioned.
Some details that are missing:
It's funny, but I can't center the class boxes title! :P
I tried adding some scrollbars to the "whiteboard" where you can view your diagrams in the Diagram Browser, but if I did that the drag & drop of the class boxes worked funny :( I'll ask about that to you later.
On the way:
Tests and documentation, and a screencast showing every feature.
Lots of refactors: as I'm adding more kind of diagrams right now, so I'm doing a lot of refactors to make everything more flexible and improving all the messy code there.�
A version of Minimal Connectors for anybody to use if they feel like connecting morphs for another project.
Some usability improvements.
Object diagrams
Sequence diagrams
Your feedback :D
So I'd really appreciate if you can give it a try and tell me how you feel about it, I'd like it to be very usable.