KLay Layered - Dynamic Label Sizing

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Dynamic Label Sizing

last modified by cds

on 2013/05/07 17:14

Table of Contents

Basic Ideas

Integrating Dynamic Label Sizing With KLay Layered

Edge Labels (Center)

Work in Progress

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Labels of nodes, ports, and especially of edges can quickly become wider than we're comfortable with, causing diagram elements to increase in size to the point where the diagram becomes illegible. This page documents approaches we're exploring to tackle this problem.

Contents

Basic Ideas

Integrating Dynamic Label Sizing With KLay Layered

Edge Labels (Center)

Basic Ideas

There's two basic approaches for dynamically adjusting the size of labels:

Wrapping. This strategy splits the label's text into multiple lines, thus decreasing the width, but increasing the height of the label.

Abbreviating. This strategy shortens the label's text, thus effectively reducing its width and keeping the height constant.

These strategies can either be integrated with the layout algorithm or not. We will mostly be exploring how such strategies can be integrated into the layout algorithm.

Integrating Dynamic Label Sizing With KLay Layered

This is the status of support for dynamic label sizes of the different types of labels:

Label Type	Status
Node	unsupported
Port	Unsupported
Edge (Source)	Unsupported
Edge (Center)	Basic Support
Edge (Target)	Unsupported

Edge Labels (Center)

ToDo

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