Re: [ba-ohs-talk] TouchGraph used on Langreiter.com
Good article on Rebol at
http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-10/lw-10-rebol.html (01)
Rebol is free and available for nearly every platform, including old and
new Macs. If you want to do something commercial with it, it's only $79
for a commercial license. (02)
I would think that a lively discussion about Rebol is in order here. (03)
Jack (04)
At 11:35 PM 12/10/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Great news: Christian Langreiter of http://www.langreiter.com has
>integrated TouchGraph into his Vanilla Hypertext System
>http://www.langreiter.com/space/vanilla-download
>
>Here is a screenshot: http://www.touchgraph.com/Langreiter_TG.jpg
>
>So what is Vanilla?
>"Vanilla is a simple hypertext system - a so-called WikiClone written in
>REBOL. To be buzzword-compliant, it is also an idea interconnection system
>and a thought flexibilitizer"
>
>Rebol by the way, is apparently a hot relatively new language quoted as
>being "Perl, Java, and CORBA rolled up into one little 200 KB package".
>
>To see the application in action, click on any internal node on
>Langreiter.com ( for instance http://www.langreiter.com/space/TouchGraph )
>, and click on the graph icon in the upper right. When the applet loads
>you should see a graph centered about the node you've selected. When
>there, make sure to do the following things: Double click on nodes to
>retrieve more data from the database (otherwise you just see the locally
>cached set). Also Right click on nodes to see some interesting options,
>specifically the option to go back to the html view where you can see the
>text of the node.
>
>This implementation is interesting, because one can easily see it being
>applied to visualize that recently created Backlink Database. The same
>strategy of rendering the DB as a series of connected trees with a
>Date/Post/Internal-link hierarchy could be followed.
>
>Unfortunately, I don't have the time to undertake this task myself,
>because I am working hard to get out the next LinkBrowser version. As
>usual though, I would be more then happy to assist anyone willing to try
>it. (Maybe it would be best to wait for the next LinkBrowser release,
>because this should clear up a lot of the coding issues.)
>
>Cheers
>--Alex (05)