nickzoic
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1 year ago On which topic:
- perhaps we should not allow nodes to be dragged past their parents / children, so that the stratum order is always correct
- perhaps when creating a new node we could rescale all the other nodes out of its way a little.
... So rather than auto-tidying we just enforce some tidiness at all times.
e48bb2b6efbaaf9aafa4d03dd22467f524267e76 introduces a "Graph Tidy" button which is a good start but it'd be nice to upgrade this to do force-directed placement or similar to get a really nice graph layout with minimal occlusion, intersecting edges, etc.
If this gets good enough, something like Autonomic Layouts might be worth considering ... have some way to auto-tidy every time a node is added or moved.