Flexible graphing tool

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It would be great to generate collaboration diagrams to complement the class 
hierarchy.

Doxygen fails at this static analysis, since Matlab uses no explicit types.

But Matlab does allow stack interrogation, and there's the whole profiler 
thing.

Can I get the profiler output and graph it?  That would be sweet.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Benjamin.Heasly on 29 Jan 2010 at 5:34

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I think the way to go is to make a separate grapher class that knows how to 
graph a 
struct array with a particular format.  This grapher could produce GraphViz 
graphs 
for a few different purposes:
 - The profiler output (includes collaboration information)
 - The ObjectGrapher (object references)
 - Statelist diagrams (nonexistent, yet)

Each element of a struct array would correspond to a graph node.

A node naming function would take one struct element and generate a node name 
(by looking at a particular field, or whatever).

An index into the struct array would specify an edge.  A certain field of would 
specify 
where to look for edges from one struct element to others.

An edge naming function would take two struct elements and their indices, and 
comu 
up with a name (by looking at a particular field, or whatever)

It will probably be clearer to put edge names in rows of a "record" node rather 
than 
out in edge space.  To do this, it would be necessary to process all edges 
before 
writing a dot file.

Original comment by Benjamin.Heasly on 16 Feb 2010 at 11:10

• Changed title: Flexible graphing tool

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Although this is not critical functionality, it should be a key part of the 
user experience-
-the main point of Snow Dots.

Original comment by Benjamin.Heasly on 16 Feb 2010 at 11:11

• Added labels: Priority-Medium

[GoogleCodeExporter]

This kind of thing is addressed in the utilities/graphing folder of Tower of 
Psych, so it's no longer a Snow Dots issue.

Original comment by Benjamin.Heasly on 23 Jun 2010 at 11:29

• Changed state: WontFix