search

zxcalc / quantomatic

Quantomatic is a tool for doing automated graph rewriting.
http://quantomatic.github.io
151 stars 22 forks source link

Suggestion: don't create lots of wire vertices in "freehand draw" tool #210

Closed akissinger closed 5 years ago

akissinger commented 6 years ago

I can't really see the use case of having long, squiggly edges with loads of wire vertices on them. It seems more sensible to have the freehand draw tool have the same mouse up/mouse down behaviour when creating nodes/boundaries/edges, but stop periodically inserting wires. This may also mean we no longer need the "simplify" button, which has its own issues (see #209).

hmillerbakewell commented 6 years ago

Agreed and changed - although I have left the "simplify" button in there for now.

akissinger commented 6 years ago

I think that's okay. A good use for minimise is the following: if you decide you want to plug a graph G into H, you can copy G to clipboard, paste into H, freehand connect up to the wires, then click minimise.

Alternatively, you could auto-minimise every time an interior wire vertex is created. Though you need to be especially careful with the undo logic here...