[instaviz-users] Opinions wanted: Graphviz URL scheme

[Glen Low]

Stephen, all

On 21/03/2009, at 9:46 AM, Stephen C. North wrote:

>>>
>>>
>>> The internal dot-document that Graphviz produces uses uids for each
>>> node, even if node labels are unique and proper for dot-node
>>> identifiers. It would be nice if uids would be generated only when
>>> neccessary, so the exported dot file could be used to make these  
>>> urls
>>> too.
>>
>> I've been sweating a little over that. Need to figure out how to
>> change the intrinsic "name" of the node in the Graphviz object model.
>>
>
>
> It would be relatively easy to introduce "agrename(obj,newname)
> at least for nodes.  I coded this once and could probably find it
> somewhere.

Would appreciate that. I was worried that changing the name would have  
ripple effects since you store the name in certain global or graph  
structures as well as in the node.

BTW, is there a notion of an edge name in libgraph or libcgraph? How  
would we write this in the DOT format?




Cheers, Glen Low


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