Ah ok, I'm still at 4.whatever.
But you'd still need ways to define the actual entities and attributes
to show - and shell out $ 100 :)
Cheers, Anjo
Am 03.12.2009 um 13:47 schrieb mschra..dimension.com:
> Graffle uses graphviz for layout internally. I would be surprised if
> you can't tweak the layout params in graffle to make it look more
> like your example. Definitely not as many knobs as gv though.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Dec 3, 2009, at 5:43 AM, "Anjo Krank"<anj..rank.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> Am 02.12.2009 um 18:14 schrieb Mike Schrag:
>>
>>> I whipped up a quick graffle generator: http://webobjects.mdimension.com/wolips/eomodelgraffle-latest.jar
>>
>> Nice work for the 2 hours, but it's worthless for anything > 5
>> entities. There is a heuristic in the D2JS thingy which defines
>> "entity groups", i.e. subsets of entities that "belong" together
>> (possibly by removing lookup entities and ordering by number of
>> inbound/outbound relationships) which *might* be of help to make
>> this mess a bit cleaner.
>>
>> So this looks like:
>>
>> <pastedGraphic.png>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> The 0:58:33 GraphViz version looks like:
>>
>> <pastedGraphic.png>
>>
>>
>>
>> Which is at least a bit more readable (although it's still a mess).
>> It's based on D2W, so you should be able to call it with
>> ERD2WDirectAction as
>>
>> http://bla/cgi-bin/WebObjects/myapp.woa/wa/GraphVizSomeSetting
>>
>> and (halfway easily) configure the entities to show. DO NOT ASK ME
>> HOW! Look at ERD2WGraphVizPage and adapt/extend/whatever it yourself.
>>
>> Cheers, Anjo
>>
>>
>
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