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Constraint-based diagram editor
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Dunnart

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Dunnart is a prototype constraint-based diagram editor. It includes standard

diagram editing capabilities as well as advanced features such as

constraint-based geometric placement tools (alignment, distribution,

separation, non-overlap, and page containment), automatic object-avoiding

poly-line connector routing, and continuous network layout.



Note: Dunnart is alpha software.  It is in the process of being rewritten, and

while many things work it still contains many bug and lacks key features.  Use

it at your own risk!



### Downloads ###



Nightly alpha builds for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows can be found here:



 *  [http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~mwybrow/dunnart/nightlies/][nightlies]



### How to cite? ###



If you refer to Dunnart in your own research or publications, please cite 

the following reference:



 *  Tim Dwyer, Kim Marriott, and Michael Wybrow.  

    Dunnart: A constraint-based network diagram authoring tool.  

    In Proceedings of 16th International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD'08),  

    LNCS 5417, pages 420–431. Springer-Verlag, 2009. [DOI][doi]



### Further information ###



The concept behind Dunnart is to use constraint-based methods to free users

from manually maintaining relationships within their diagrams. These could

include geometric relationships, non-overlap, object-avoiding connector routes

or graph layout. In Dunnart, the user can define these features of their layout

and they will be automatically maintained throughout further editing. The user

can override or alter these relationships at any time.



Dunnart is a research prototype. As such, it lacks some of the features and

polish of a professional diagram editor. any of the significant features of

Dunnart are implemented in the open-source Adaptagrams constraint layout

libraries and are described in my publications and/or PhD thesis.



![Dunnart screenshot](https://raw.github.com/mjwybrow/dunnart/master/libdunnartcanvas/doc/DunnartScreen.png)



### Building ###



Dunnart depends only on the [Qt cross-platform application and UI 

framework][qt].  All other components are included in the repository.  

Dunnart can be built by issuing the following commands:



    qmake -recursive -config release dunnart.pro  

    make



### libdunnartcanvas - Reusable constraint-based canvas component ###



Dunnart is built using `libdunnartcanvas`, a reusable Qt-based canvas widget

that extends our low level Adaptagrams constraint-based layout libraries and

provides interactive constrain-based layout and placement tools.  See the image

below for an overview of the architecture.



Adaptagrams is a library of tools and reusable code for adaptive diagramming

applications, for example: drawing tools, automated document and diagram

layout, smart presentation software, graph drawing, chart layout, etc.



![Dunnart architecture](https://raw.github.com/mjwybrow/dunnart/master/libdunnartcanvas/doc/DunnartStructure.png)



### Authors ###



Dunnart is written and maintained by [Michael Wybrow][mw]. The latest version of the source code can be found here:



 *  [https://github.com/mjwybrow/dunnart/][dunnartrepo]



The Adaptagrams layout algorithms are developed by [Kim Marriott][km] and members of his Adaptive Diagrams Research Group at [Monash University][monash] in Melbourne, Australia.  The Adaptagrams libraries were originally written by [Tim Dwyer][td] and [Michael Wybrow][mw].



The latest Adaptagrams source code can be found in the github repository:



 *  [https://github.com/mjwybrow/adaptagrams/][adaptagramsrepo]



### License ###



Dunnart and `libdunnartcanvas` are available as open source under the 

terms of the GNU GPL version 2.  We are also open to dual-licensing parts

of Dunnart's constraint-based layout technology for commercial use.



Copyright (C) 2003-2007  Michael Wybrow  

Copyright (C) 2006-2011  Monash University



This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or

modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License

as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2

of the License, or (at your option) any later version.



This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

GNU General Public License for more details.



[td]: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~tdwyer/

[km]: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~kmarriott/

[mw]: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~mwybrow/

[monash]: http://wwww.csse.monash.edu.au/

[dunnart]: http://www.dunnart.org/

[qt]: http://www.qt.io/

[adaptagramsrepo]: https://github.com/mjwybrow/adaptagrams/

[dunnartrepo]: https://github.com/mjwybrow/dunnart/

[repo]: https://github.com/mjwybrow/adaptagrams/

[nightlies]:http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~mwybrow/dunnart/nightlies/

[doi]:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00219-9_41