Re: Problem reading Entity Modeler file in EOModeler

From: Anjo Krank (anj..rank.net)
Date: Thu Dec 03 2009 - 07:56:39 EST

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    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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