This chapter describes an expressive way to build lines in Roassal. I’ll start by illustrating the difficulties in defining lines. Subsequently, I’ll demonstrate how Line Builder is used to address these difficulties.
All the code provided in this chapter is available at https://github.com/bergel/AgileVisualizationAPressCode/blob/main/02-04-LineBuilder.txt.
Difficulties with Build Lines
A visualization typically represents a particular set of elements and logical structure is best expressed using lines. Manually maintaining the association between the represented elements and the visual representation ...
