Problem with visualization of a big network

Luis luis at anachreon.co.uk
Tue Sep 26 10:14:51 EDT 2006


Have you thought of setting a global whereby the size of the objects are 
stored? This way you can 'magnify' in and out by changing the height and 
width properties of the objects.
Another way is to explore the SVG rendering in Revolution, though I 
can't find any reference to that in the docs: This presents the images 
as vectors, which would be easy enough to scale.
Other than that, you could group similar objects together, with maybe 
like a count plastered on top to show the number of items contained: On 
zooming in this would then open up the 'container' to show the 
individual items.

You could look at ZUI: Zooming User Interface 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_User_Interface) for more 
assistance with this, there's links at the end of the page.

Good luck with that, I'm interested in visual representations, but with 
limited screen real estate you have to work round it, sometimes it 
brings in something new to the scene.

BTW: 800x600 is torturous! Any chance of upping that to at least 1024x768?

Cheers,

Luis.


Mark Smith wrote:
> You might try making a group that is big enough to contain all the 
> buttons, setting it's lock location to true and turning it's scroll bars 
> on - this way, the user can scroll to whatever part of the network 
> he/she needs to see.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> On 26 Sep 2006, at 13:55, KALANGI Vijay BABU wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm developing an application "Network Editor" wherein there are nearly
>> 50-75 nodes representing people on a single card...
>>
>>
>>
>> Here each node is a button of size 30 * 40 and with links (graphics of
>> style line) between them the network becomes very big.
>>
>>
>>
>> The user will also be able to drag the nodes in the network.
>>
>>
>>
>> Problem:
>>
>> With such a big network , all nodes get clustered on a card of size 800
>> * 600 .So is there any way for proper visualization like in Google earth
>> or maps where in we can move the screen and view the network or some
>> other way so that the network can be seen properly.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Vijay Babu Kalangi
>>
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