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Ever see this: dia2code?
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Paul Johnson |
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Ever see this: dia2code? |
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Wed, 02 Jan 2002 10:13:31 -0600 |
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This program can take a dia diagram/drawing and convert it to skeleton
code for a set of classes.
http://dia2code.sourceforge.net/
It is the kind of thing that I had always thought would be handy,
especially in teaching but also in "roughing out" projects. If you look
at the beautiful picture I made for the Artificial Stock Market 2.2
(http://artstkmkt.sourceforge.net/ASM-Docs/) you see I do like pictures.
Anyway, suppose dia2code did work, or we help its author fix it up. As
far as I can see, it is of limited usefulness because it is a
"draw-once" program, there is no way to take the class files, edit them,
and then generate a new picture for them. At least I don't see one.
But if we could "round trip" projects--draw, generate, edit, redraw--I
think this could be a handy thing.
Since there are so many programmers around here, I wondered if somebody
would look at this at tell me what kind of a project it would be to
develop this round tripping capability. Or, perhaps more accurately,
how much would you expect a professor to pay for the development of such
a tool, if you know what I mean. How much should be budgeted?
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Paul E. Johnson email: address@hidden
Dept. of Political Science http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn
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