Subj : Re: Flowchart software that supports top down development?
To   : comp.programming
From : Phlip
Date : Fri Jul 29 2005 04:26 pm

Roman Mashak wrote:

>  RH> digraph "G" {
>  RH>   main [label="main" fontcolor="white" color="blue" style="filled"];
>  RH>   main -> foo;
>  RH>   main -> bar;
>  RH>   foo [label="foo" fontcolor="white" color="red" style="filled"];
>  RH>   bar [label="bar" fontcolor="white" color="blue" style="filled"];
>  RH>   bar -> foo;
>  RH>   bar -> baz;
>  RH>   baz [label="baz" fontcolor="white" color="red" style="filled"];
>  RH> };

> Does this technique suppose to prepate this sort of file manually?

Yes. I have a command line utility called trigger that runs a command line
when a file changes. So I would put this on a command line:

  trigger "dot -Tpng myGraph.dot -o myGraph.png && mspaint myGraph.png"
myGraph.dot

Then I open myGraph.dot in an editor and edit it. Each time I hit save,
trigger sees the file change and runs dot, then mspaint. The new graph pops
up, I look at it, and I dismiss it.

Or I leave it there and go back to the editor. This technique converts any
editor into a dirt-simple kind of IDE for any system.

In the editor, I write each line, like you see, and edit them until they
work right.

BTW this thread has gone on long enough I sure hope the original poster has
started their project the old fashioned way!

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