A Good Imagination and a Pile of Junk

As I’ve mentioned a couple times before, user interface programming is absolutely my Achilles heel.

I’m noodling around with an application that I haven’t been able to get out of my head for quite a long time, and a part of it requires that diagram building interface with drag and drop geometrics (with text), organic looking lines connecting things (in real time while dragging) etc.

But most of the 2d graphic stuff I see (for instance in books on Java’s 2d library) are just about getting pixels on a canvas. That’s cute and all, but I need a higher level of functionality than that.

I’m going to spend some time working with it to see what I come up with, but I figure it’s got to be a solved problem. Somewhere there’s a diagram in a patterns book that I’m going to end up looking at and V8 smacking my head.

But I’ll be damned if I can find it in the dozen or so that I have.

And no, I don’t care what the language of implementation is, I can port anything if I need to. I just need to see and grok the structures involved.

Tags: Programming

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