Re: UI Design Question

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From: Curt_C [MVP] (software_AT_darkfalz.com)
Date: 05/13/04 

Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 14:01:16 -0500

well, since it's not linear it's a toughie to say. If you limit it to only 1
node and it's children and parents you could use a double tree setup but
it's the siblings thing that makes it tough. 

-- 
Curt Christianson
Owner/Lead Developer, DF-Software
Site: http://www.Darkfalz.com
Blog: http://blog.Darkfalz.com
"Guadala Harry" <GH@Holdtheonions.com> wrote in message
news:OI9Y3iROEHA.628@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> I already have the table design hammered out - but how to dislay it all
> graphically in a Web page? I suppose a "brute force" method would involve
> using GDI+ on the server to crank out a diagram that gets saved as a jpg
> that is in turn referenced by an aspx - but that's a lot of work. I was
> hoping for something simpler. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> -G
>
>
>
> "Curt_C [MVP]" <software_AT_darkfalz.com> wrote in message
> news:edFn%23PROEHA.3884@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > sounds like a family tree type design. perhaps a search on that may lead
> to
> > what you are after.
> > Sounds like 3 tables to me though.
> > 1) Nodes
> > 2) Parents (1 to many)
> > 3) Chidrem (1 to many)
> >
> >
> > -- 
> > Curt Christianson
> > Owner/Lead Developer, DF-Software
> > Site: http://www.Darkfalz.com
> > Blog: http://blog.Darkfalz.com
> >
> >
> > "Guadala Harry" <GH@Holdtheonions.com> wrote in message
> > news:up6ehpQOEHA.3708@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > > I have a need to display nodes in a hierarchy - an inverted tree of
> > sorts -
> > > but a bit more complicated than a simple tree or set of inverted
trees.
> > The
> > > nodes I'm dealing with exist in a definite hierarchy, however any
given
> > node
> > > can have more than one parent and can have multiple children (except
for
> > the
> > > top/root nodes). This is different than a tree in that in a tree, any
> > given
> > > node can have at most one parent.
> > >
> > > Anyway, I need to display these nodes and their relationships
> graphically
> > on
> > > an Web page. I'd appreciate some suggestions for how to accomplish
this
> > > visual display. I don't think I can use a simple tree/list view (like
in
> > > Windows Explorer) because in those, any given node can have at most
one
> > > parent (unless the node is displayed more than once - which I don't
want
> > to
> > > do). I'd be happy just to even have some boxes containing a short bit
of
> > > text (to represent a node) and some connecting lines - but how to
> > accomplish
> > > this? Note: The nodes and their relationships are stored in a
database,
> > and
> > > the graphical representation must be created at runtime.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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