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graphviz question |
2007-10-28
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While procrastinating about drawing up some process diagrams to visualize integration tasks, I came across graphviz. By came across, I mean, I finally really looked at it after all those brief encounters with its use our output in other tools.
While it seems incredibly handy to be able to describe graphs programatically, it does have a painful learning curve. If you disagree, try running "dotty", the visual editor :)
Anyway, here's something right off the bat I can't figure out: the documented shapes include note and tab, but when I use that as a shape attribute value, dot complains. I can't figure out any way of listing supported node shape types either.
Any graphviz expert care to throw me a bone ?
On a related note, any idea why there is no shape for the common flowchart symbol for documentation, which is a rectangle with the bottom side as a one-period sine wave ?
> note and tab
You need the latest development version for these.
> listing supported node shape types
1. Get graphviz version (dot -V).
2. Get the appropriate source tarball.
3. Look at the definition of Shapes in lib/common/shapes.c.
In 2.14.1 the shapes are:
box
polygon
ellipse
oval
circle
point
egg
triangle
none
plaintext
diamond
trapezium
parallelogram
house
pentagon
hexagon
septagon
octagon
rect
rectangle
doublecircle
doubleoctagon
tripleoctagon
invtriangle
invtrapezium
invhouse
Mdiamond
Msquare
Mcircle
record
Mrecord
epsf
Comment by Bob Anderson — 2007-10-28 @ 17:21
Perhaps if you posted the code you tried and didn’t work?
Comment by Soren — 2007-10-28 @ 18:32
Just some notes on prettying up the graphs.
http://www.karakas-online.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2647
Comment by Graphviz user — 2007-10-30 @ 23:57