why you need separate class for 'rotated' label?
to have rotated labels :-)
i suppose you also need RTRotatedAndScaledLabel, RTRotatedAndScewedLabel .. as well as other (infinite) number of permutations with 'something-ed' and 'Labelâ.
Actually no. Having rotated labels can be considered as a primitive for data visualization. DSM, GraphET need rotated labels. I see Roassal as an abstract for data visualization. Not really as a better API than Athens. Neither as an alternative. Athens works very well, and the API is relatively clean. Yesterday with Ben we had exactly that discussion. Why not exposing the notion of matrix, like that I can rotate anything? That is a very good point, and we will probably offer such a thing on some point. But the problem with matrixes is that they are highly complicated. Finding the right combination between translation and rotation is always a long set of try-and-see-what-we-get.
or its just a prototype?
Yes, it is a prototype. It will probably evolve over the time. Maybe we will not keep RotatedLabel at the end, but merge it with Label. One some point, we will introduce a hierarchy for transformation. Alexandre -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.