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• See the KIELER Downloads site for download details.
• KIELER Pragmatics requires an installed Java Runtime Environment >= version 1.5.
• The layout components of KIELER can make use of the layout algorithms provided by the GraphViz Graphviz library. You may want to install that.

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This is a summary of the API changes introduced with version 2014/05:

• KIELER Lightweight Diagrams
• KIELER Infrastructure for Meta-Layout

  • Renamed LayoutDataService to LayoutMetaDataService and renamed ILayoutData to ILayoutMetaData in order to avoid confusion with the KLayoutData meta model and the respective interface.

  • Removed generic type argument from LayoutOptionData.

  • ILayoutConfig: renamed API method enrich() to getContextValue(..), renamed getValue(..) to getOptionValue(..), renamed setValue(..) to setOptionValue(..), renamed clearValues() to clearOptionValues(..) – see Configuring Automatic Layout for more details.

  • IDiagramLayoutManager does not inherit from IAdapterFactory anymore; adapter values are now accessed with layoutManager.getDiagramConfig().getContextValue(..)

  • Graphiti bridge: moved some methods from KimlGraphitiUtil to GraphitiDiagramLayoutManager in order to allow easier adaptation in subclasses. Furthermore, we now differentiate margins (spacing to visible part of a node) and insets (spacing to nested subgraph).

  • Made a design review of the de.cau.cs.kieler.core plugin and improved the API of some core classes and interfaces.

New Features Included in 2014/05

Here's a few highlights of what's new in version 2014/05:

• KIELER Lightweight Diagrams
• KIELER Infrastructure for Meta-Layout

  • Made categorization of the Layout View more understandable.

  • Added a creation method for VolatileLayoutConfig that makes the far too complicated STATIC_CONFIG of layout managers unnecessary.

• KIELER Layout Algorithms
  • KLay Layered now makes sure that labels of compound node ports placed on the inside of the compound node are not overlapped by nodes inside the compound node.
  • KLay Layered now supports controlling the spacing between and around ports through the new layout options LayoutOptions.PORT_SPACING and LayoutOptions.ADDITIONAL_PORT_SPACING.
  • KLay Layered now understands LayoutOptions.NO_LAYOUT, which can be set to exclude particular graph elements from automatic layout.
  • KLay Layered now understands a new programmatic option for edge thickness.
  • When in hierarchical layout mode, KLay Layered now properly places edge labels of cross-hierarchy edges.
  • When in hierarchical layout mode, KLay Layered can now compact cross-hierarchy edges as it can compact regular edges (Properties.MERGE_HIERARCHICAL_PORTS):
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• KGraph Text
  • The textual language for defining KGraphs now has a lot more defaults. Node and port labels are automatically extracted from the node's and port's ID. Nodes and ports also have a default size. This makes for shorter diagram descriptions.

Quickstart

Diagram Layout

One of the core features of KIELER Pragmatics is the KIELER Infrastructure for Meta-Layout (KIML). It provides the glue between diagram editors and layout algorithms. If you have installed layout support for GMF editors, you may want to try the following:

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Known Problems and Limitations

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• The Ptolemy Model Viewer can properly display only a limited set of actors. Other actors may look a lot different than they do in Ptolemy.
• Currently there is no full-blown user documentation integrated. See our KIELER for more information.

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