Re: Save Topology

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 08:02:31PM -0500, Kris Katterjohn wrote:
> J Marlow wrote:
> > I was surprised that it only saves the currently viewable part of the
> > graph, but that does seem reasonable.  I think it would be nice if at
> > some point in the future there was an option for saving the entire
> > graph, but that could make for some really big images and maybe have
> > other implementation difficulties.  But the current version looks good
> > to me.
>
> I'm definitely not a regular Zenmap user (I fixed some bugs a while back but I
> rarely even touch it), but I've liked the idea of saving the graph since I
> heard about it.  Since I rarely use Zenmap I haven't tried Joao's patch yet,
> so these next parts are purely based on what you're saying in the quoted
> portion of the email...
>
> I think saving the currently viewable region is the most obvious and best way
> to go.  I would be highly surprised if it *didn't* do this.  Since the ability
> is there to manipulate the graph (rearrange, zoom, etc), why would the save
> feature only save some pre-ordained, whole view of the graph?

I was surprised when it saved only the visible part of the graph. Most
applications don't work that way, though it makes sense here. When you
print a web page you don't get only the part visible in the browser
window.

> Also, instead of having an option to save the whole thing, can't you just
> bring the whole graph into the window like (IIRC) it does to start with?

Yes, there should be a "show all" button that automatically zooms out to
show the whole graph. That or the save interface could have "current
view"/"whole graph" radio buttons.

David Fifield

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