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[ANN] Graphviz 1.10 (v2) for Mac OS X, beta test
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[ANN] Graphviz 1.10 (v2) for Mac OS X, beta test


  • Subject: [ANN] Graphviz 1.10 (v2) for Mac OS X, beta test
  • From: Glen Low <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 15:41:32 +0800

Dear All,

I've completed most of the work on the Graphviz port, which counts as my first serious Cocoa (though not my first Macintosh) app. Thanks immensely to all the regulars of macosx-dev, especially Bob Ippolito, mmalcolm crawford, Shawn Erickson, Scott Anguish and others for their help with Cocoa and putting up with some rather basic questions. Thanks also to John Ellson and Stephen North of AT&T for trusting their baby to a stranger from down under.

If you don't already know, Graphviz is a UNIX-based automated graph layout program -- you don't have to figure out the graph, unlike apps like dia, Visio and Omnigraffle, the program figures it out for you. I've enhanced the app with lots of Mac goodness -- an Aqua document-based GUI, Quartz rendering and Quicktime image exporting. Take a look at:

http://www.pixelglow.com/graphviz/

This is a limited public beta and your feedback on all fronts is welcome. Please send all email to:

email@hidden

In particular, I'm interested in the following:

1. Differences/discrepancies in result and performances between:
a. Mac OS X 10.2 and 10.3
b. Quicktime and Quicktime Pro, types of bitmap formats available in the Export dialog box.
c. UNIX/Linux install and a Mac OS X install: compare the ps, png, jpg formats.

2. Performance with large graphs.

3. Suggestions for improving the GUI. There's two things I intend to add to it:
a. Printing from the app.
b. A refresh/reload button and a way to disable automatic refresh.

4. Anyone willing to localize for non-English languages?

5. Anyone interested in the graphviz API? (It will not be a ObjC interface, I don't have the time for this, but just the documented existing interface expressed as private framework headers)

Look forward to your comments!


Cheers, Glen Low


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www.pixelglow.com
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