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Re: Cause and Effect Diagramming in Mathematica

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg85372] Re: Cause and Effect Diagramming in Mathematica
• From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 07:08:26 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: University of Bergen
• References: <foekc0$i5v$1@smc.vnet.net>

robert prince-wright wrote:
> I am wondering whether Mathematica 6 provides an environment for creating diagrams in which the arrows, nodes and boxes represent data, influences and functional transformations.
>    
>   What I'm envisaging is a series of palettes that allow me to add elements to a diagram while at the same time writing the functional relationships to a notebook for later evaluation.
>    
>   Does this sound realistic? Can some of you point me to the expressions I should look at to do the following:
>    
>   - create a palette that adds a line and a box to a graphic
>   - select these two and move them 
>   - write the associated functions to a notebook 
>    

Hei,

Look at the GraphPlot function, and try the GraphEdit examples.
Documentation links:
ref/GraphPlot
GraphUtilities/ref/GraphEdit
GUIKit/tutorial/GraphEditor

Szabolcs Horvát