Meeting agenda/minutes

Apologies

Shoaib Steve

Attending and minuting

• Attending: Alan Jits Rishi
• Minuting: Rishi

Actions from previous meeting (5 min)

use GEF with a basic model to demonstrate mockup requirements. ONGOING
take a look at database query builders. ONGOIGN
allow the user to connect nodes together - via Nodules (primary). Add a iterator visualisation (secondary). ONGOING
Consider user scenarios - ONGOING
start initial conceptual model - Jits - ONGOING
Consider user scenarios - ONGOING

Contact VBrowser people - Jits - ONGOING
Put together an initial conceptual model document - Jits - ONGOING
Continue on GEF work - Rishi - ONGOING
Upload current work to SVN - Rishi - ONGOING
set up GIT repo & have it sync to the main taverna directory

Discussions

Rishi showed the mockup 2 so far; got nodes within a component grounp and that group is within a workflow canvas. You can move nodes, groups around + multiple selection. All derived from the model. Then explained the structure of the code so far:

• currently composed of 25 classes organised into 6 packages - adheres to MVC - (a brief description)

• main : RCP bits
• commands : deals with layout changes for individual components & group of components
• editpolicies : policies that are applied to editpart objects to determine the Interaction available for that part - IMPORTANT lots of information to be told here, will explain during mondays meeting.
• figure : figures that are representative of a component, groups of components and a workflow (canvas). This is coupled with a corresponding EditPart respectively. This uses Draw2d to construct figures.
• model : base class of the model is Node - setters & getters. A node can be a single node, a group of nodes (components) and a workflow (containing groups & individual nodes).
• part : EditPart of a node, a group of nodes and a workflow (canvas). This is the controller part. The thing that handles the input from a view to an EditPart-to-model is done by a EditPart factory.

Jits: now that we've got nodes and groups, we need to consider the design aspect of this and how it fits into the conceptual model.

Alan: what about determining what connection to connect with which nodules, how will this be done?

Rishi: unsure, but the next stage is to figure out the undo/redo framework and then add Anchors, these are node nodules so it will become clear then. Zoom after, trivial.

New actions

Contact VBrowser people - Jits - ONGOING
Put together an initial conceptual model document - Jits - ONGOING
Continue on GEF work - Rishi - ONGOING
Upload current work to SVN - Rishi - ONGOING

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