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Author:  Fogmeister [ Fri Apr 16, 2010 8:44 am ]
Post subject:  Help with creating an interface

I've been thinking of writing something for work. It will prob have to be in Java.

I'm looking to create a program that will iterate through all the files in our software and store any links to other files.

i.e. if there are three file and file a runs file b which in turn runs file c then there will be two links (a,b) and (b,c).

This is the easy bit.

The hard bit is I would like to create a graphical interface to represent the map that is created. I was thinking of something along the lines of the Google image similarity interface... (I think it was that anyway, can't find it atm). Anyway, it worked by placing the selected image in the middle of the screen and showing lines out to all the connected images that were placed around the centre image.

When you click one of the orbiting images it moved it to the middle and created the lines for it.

I'd like to try at least to get something similar but I'm not too sure where to start (esp with Java). I could probably do something in Cocoa on my Mac but then I wouldn't be able to use it at work.

Any tips are very welcome :D

Author:  finlay666 [ Fri Apr 16, 2010 3:33 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Help with creating an interface

Could you use a modified UML builder? That would let you have an entity of a file and a connected file,

or to store the files as a singly linked list then to have a function to go through and connect the points together behind the base image of the file

Author:  forquare1 [ Fri Apr 16, 2010 3:51 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Help with creating an interface

Fogmeister wrote:
I'd like to try at least to get something similar but I'm not too sure where to start (esp with Java). I could probably do something in Cocoa on my Mac but then I wouldn't be able to use it at work.


Perhaps looking at JavaFX?

It can do some pretty cool things:
http://javafx.com/samples/DisplayShelf/index.html

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