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Bug 277402

Summary: [dot4zest] Graphviz-compatible animation DSL for Zest
Product: [Tools] GEF Reporter: Fabian Steeg <steeg>
Component: GEF-Legacy ZestAssignee: Fabian Steeg <steeg>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
URL: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Graphviz_DOT_as_a_DSL_for_Zest
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Bug Depends on: 277397    
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Description Fabian Steeg CLA 2009-05-21 18:55:24 EDT 
This is related to bug 277380.

To make use of Zest animations from DOT, I plan to add basic animation support to the DOT-to-Zest transformations, representing animation steps as subgraphs in the DOT input. If this works out, it would provide a basic animation DSL for Zest that remains Graphviz-compatible (meaning a single representation could be visualized as an animation with Zest and as an image file with Graphviz, which would describe the steps of the animation).

See http://wiki.eclipse.org/Graphviz_DOT_as_a_DSL_for_Zest for details about the planned implementation and examples of the intended DOT input and the desired resulting Zest animations.
Comment 1 Fabian Steeg CLA 2009-07-12 13:29:11 EDT 
Implemented by attachment 141378 [details].
Comment 2 Fabian Steeg CLA 2011-03-12 22:07:33 EST 
Would require a different approach with graph creation at runtime than implemented in attachment 141378 [details] (see [1] and [2] for details).

[1] http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/gef-dev/msg01357.html
[2] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Graphviz_DOT_as_a_DSL_for_Zest#Future_Ideas