GUI for building connected blocks

citromatik has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all

Maybe a long shot...

I am trying to figure out how to build a GUI for creating and managing pipelines graphically, i.e. objects (blocks) connected by different relationships (lines). In other words, I would like to graphically create plots like this one: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~mp/graph.png but be able to reorganize (drag them), reconnect, create new blocks, connections, etc.

Is anyone aware of any framework (or whatever) that would allow to do something similar?

How would you face the problem?

Thank you very much in advance,

citromatik

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Re: GUI for building connected blocks by Anonymous Monk on May 11, 2011 at 14:30 UTC
That is graphviz rendering, so GraphViz Tk::GraphViz GVEdit also interesting http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/ - DIagrams Through Ascii Art http://www.jgraph.com/mxgraph.html - the AJAX diagramming solution App::Asciio - Plain ASCII diagram	[reply]
Re^2: GUI for building connected blocks by citromatik (Curate) on May 11, 2011 at 15:06 UTC
mxgraph is amazing. I have also found these alternatives: thejit and joint. (Sorry for the off-topic --non-Perl-- related comment) EDIT: And another one: origramy citromatik	[reply]
Re^3: GUI for building connected blocks by duelafn (Parson) on May 11, 2011 at 19:46 UTC
heck, even ~~Open~~LibreOffice Draw can do this. (See also Dia and many others.) Good Day, Dean	[reply]
Re: GUI for building connected blocks by choroba (Cardinal) on May 11, 2011 at 15:57 UTC
Tk. But it means lot of work. We at work use it like this.	[reply]
Re: GUI for building connected blocks by zentara (Archbishop) on May 12, 2011 at 14:20 UTC
If you want to use Tk, here is a head start to show the principles. See Tk Patio/Office layout designer All you need to do is add line drawing and text addition, as shown in ztk-mapper Good Luck and have fun, the Tk canvas is alot of fun. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh	[reply]


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