• Spoke with Phil about increasing the awesomeness of the VisibilityScriptingInterface
• Refreshing myself on Python and scripting languages in general
• Trying to figure out how syntax highlighting works
• Stumbled on this java script project that looks very useful http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/

• Added slide in / slide out controls to the network widget
• Tried adding a scale option to the network map… it took awhile to get every container, mask and forces to behave correctly and finally once it was working changing scale really didn’t have a great effect.  Small scale changes could kind of make things more visible but anything more than a little would slam nodes against the walls and create weird behavior so I tore it all back out.

• Completed the “Query Selected” feature on the data tab of the AdvancedQueryWidget.  This is a new option in the dropdown menu
• Tested that it works on single and multiple items as well as chaining widgets in various orders [ie. select * to select * where salary = 100,000 to select * where salary = 100,000 and (uid = 6 or uid = 7)].  Seems to work in every situation

• Talked to Phil about the NetworkWidget and improvements to be done
• Made the Connections screen a little better with an improved layout, changing the list to a datagrid and adding a select all button
• Added a ‘Remove” button to the Slideshow creation screen in case people don’t think to right-click
• Started working on the ability to query on only the selected items in the data tab, needs a lot of testing

• Added check for color column to NetworkWidget
• Added code to watch for selection events in the network widget part of AdvancedQueryWidget, all selection which occurs will be reflected in the data tab
• Trying to reproduce an issue Dong is having with ManagedCanvas and loading minimized windows, no luck so far

• Added multiple selection to NetworkMap as well as a function for finding nodes n hops from multiple nodes
• Created a new networkmap container which is a view stack.  The first is the basic networkmap and a link button take you to the second page which has a control for inputting and executing the method for finding nodes n hops from the node(s) selected in the map.  A list then displays those nodes.  The idea is to add this two layer stack to the AdvancedQueryWidget and whenever a selection change occurs on either the map or list of nodes, those entries will be selected in the data tab of the AdvQW allowing users to run new queries easily based on connection information.

The following has been completed on the NetworkWidget

• Resolved resizing issues
• Resolved creation issues when within an accordion or whenever not immediately visible
• Added a data field to SmartShapes so original data may be referenced
• Added a selectedItem and selectionChange events to SmartShapeContainer
• Redid how icons are used in the network widget, they are now added by both url and title to better fit with how icons are used in the visibility app
• Added a method for finding all nodes n hops from the currently selected node
• Have the basic NetworkWidget functionality working in a running AdvancedQueryWidget

To Do:

• Add some sort way for viewing nodes n from currently selected node
• Allow users to query off the n hop nodes
• Add multiple selection to NetworkMap and n hops from multiple nodes

• Mavenized the NetworkWidget project
• Started rolling the NetworkWidget in to the AdvQW accordion and came across a few problems:
  • Creating a MsdContainer within an accordion throws a bitmapdata exception because the initial height/width are zero, probably going to have add something which delays the initialization until the network widget becomes visible and also pauses rendering when it is not visible
  • Resizing the MsdContainer causes the background to go black and all link lines to vanish, also sometimes the SmartShapes do not appear

So this may take a bit longer than I initially thought.

Finally back home to the internets.

• Connected the scale bar to the slides, works exactly the same as it does for the work area
• Added a tip about slide shows to the tip panel
• fixed an annoying issue where when saving a slideshow, the dropdown menu would refresh and possible select a different slideshow
• Tested all layout managers with slide shows and they seem to all be working
• Played a great deal with transitions and found some cool open source ones available but integrating them would be a great deal of work and probably not worth it right now.  For now three basic transitions are available and look pretty good:
  • Dissolve (like fade but also fades text)
  • Wipe
  • Zoom (looks pretty cool actually)

Will start looking at the network widget.

The blog is so fast!

May not have a reliable internet connection for the next few days but I’ll be working on the following:

• Testing all layout managers with the slideshow and loading widgets in various states
• Trying to connect the scale bar to the slideshow
• Improving transitions