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JHotDraw 8
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Stable release and documentation #2

Open EwoutH opened 1 year ago

EwoutH commented 1 year ago

Over at NetLogo we might be interested in updating our (ancient) JHotDraw 6.0b1 implementation. Since JHotDraw 7 is also getting quite old and you're actively working on JHotDraw 8, I was curious if a stable release and/or documentation for JHotDraw 8 is already available.

wrandelshofer commented 1 year ago

Well, the JHotDraw 8 code is currently not stable. The feature set is still very incomplete with respect to JHotDraw 7.

I checked out NetLogo sources from github. It looks like NetLogo only uses a very few features from JHotDraw 6. Is this correct, that all the code that depends on JHotDraw 6 is in the package org.nlogo.sdm.gui?

If so, I might be ablec to create a demo module in JHotDraw 8 that tries to replicate the functionality provided in that package. So that we can assess the feasibility of a migration to JHotDraw 8.

Important question: Are you aware that JHotDraw 8 depends on JavaFX? It will not work with Swing/AWT.

EwoutH commented 1 year ago

Thanks for getting back! That's correct, we use a tiny portion for creating system dynamics diagrams, and it's all indeed in org.nlogo.sdm.gui / netlogo-gui/src/main/sdm/gui.

Important question: Are you aware that JHotDraw 8 depends on JavaFX? It will not work with Swing/AWT.

@ocaml-n00b, what do you think? Is this a breaking issue? If so, would we be better of by migrating to JHotDraw 7 for now?

ocaml-n00b commented 1 year ago

Yeah, for now we should use jhotdraw7. In the mean time I'll look into how to integrate sdm with version 8.

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Thanks for getting back! That's correct, we use a tiny portion for creating system dynamics diagrams, and it's all indeed in org.nlogo.sdm.gui / netlogo-gui/src/main/sdm/gui https://github.com/NetLogo/NetLogo/tree/hexy/netlogo-gui/src/main/sdm/gui .

Important question: Are you aware that JHotDraw 8 depends on JavaFX? It will not work with Swing/AWT.

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wrandelshofer commented 1 year ago

Well if you are not planning to migrate NetLogo to JavaFX, then I suggest that you stick to JHotDraw 6.

JHotDraw versions 6, 7, 8 have a very different API and different design philosophies. So, if you were to rewrite the editor for JHotDraw 7, you would have to rewrite it again for JHotDraw 8.

JHotDraw 7 provides a lot of functionality over JHotDraw 6. However it requires quite a lot of code for simple things.

JHotDraw 8 provides even more functionality than JHotDraw 7, and substantially reduces the amount of code that one needs to write.

ocaml-n00b commented 1 year ago

I'm getting my environment setup again, i'll try the latest and see how far I get; I'll proceed based on that.