Re: UI for authoring SCXML documents

Le 31 juil. 2015 à 01:33, Michael Bodell <bodell@247-inc.com> a écrit :
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> In all cases, however, once the machines become a little bigger the automatic visualizations become much harder to follow.  I tried loading a couple of real state machines that aren’t too terrible (623 lines of code and 989 lines of code) and in both cases the picture was only marginally illuminating and quite a bit harder to follow.  But they would be step-by-step-able and would also help newer people do their first few state machines and/or help with tutorials or sample state machines and the assertion state machines.

Are you saying they're harder to follow graphically than by reading 989 lines of code? ;)
I know the current simple layout in JSSC's viewer doesn't scale well. That doesn't mean the whole idea of a graphical representation is doomed. By positionning the states better and automatically collapsing large inactive compound states, I think you'd get a useful view of even large SCs. After all, hierarchical states are in here, among other reasons, to abstract away some of the complexity of the machine.

   David