DeepaMehta 5 Cytoscape Renderer

A DeepaMehta 5 topicmap renderer as a composable GUI component.

Version History

0.26 -- Mar 30, 2020

• Features:
  • Context commands can be calculated dynamically
• Improvements:
  • Mobile friendly: fires topicmap-contextmenu on taphold as well
• Fixes:
  • Pinned details respect zoom value at initial rendering
• Chore:
  • Update to Cytoscape 3.14.1
  • Remove cytoscape-cose-bilkent dependency

0.25 -- Nov 21, 2019

• Improvements:
  • Disable topicmap auto-layout/animation
  • Topicmap pans automatically when a topic is revealed outside viewport
  • Topicmap rendering respects individual topic icon widths
  • "Zoom to Fit" and "Reset Zoom" operations are animated
• Fixes:
  • State management when selected topic/assoc is not visible/readable anymore after login/logout
  • Disable draw-assoc gesture when user lacks WRITE permission
  • Topics whose label contains an ampersand are properly rendered
  • Initial topicmap rendering does not emit an unwanted viewport event

0.24 -- Aug 26, 2019

• Improvements:
  • Adjust multi-command labels

0.23 -- Aug 15, 2019

• Fixes:
  • Leave state update on delete topic/assoc to dm5-topicmap-panel component

0.22 -- Jul 22, 2019

• Improvements:
  • HTML links are still clickable when detail is locked
  • Enable browser/system context menus
  • No auto-layout after user moves topic
  • Optimization: renderNode() memoization
• Fixes:
  • Revealing Number and Boolean topics
  • Style of expanded aux nodes
• Chore:
  • Adapt to dm5 library ("player" renaming)
  • Change license to AGPL-3.0

0.21 -- May 29, 2019

• Fix: revealed HTML topics are rendered as source (instead empty topic)

0.20 -- May 27, 2019

• Improvements:
  • Render topic icon color and background color
  • In-map details: render with topic/assoc background color
  • Context menus: multi-commands show number of topics/assocs affected
  • Debounce playFisheyeAnimation()
• Fixes:
  • Truncate long node labels, in particular image binaries
  • Don't debounce _syncDetailSize()

0.19 -- Apr 22, 2019

• Features:
  • 2 new topicmap buttons: "Zoom to Fit" and "Reset Zoom"
  • Auto pan topicmap when moving topic to viewport edge
• Improvements:
  • "Danger Zone" menu can be invoked by any modifier key
  • Disabled context menu items are visualized more clear
  • "Lock" and "Pin" detail buttons show tooltips
  • Send less requests on hide; unpin is implicit
• Fixes:
  • Implicitly hiding a pinned association does not corrupt topicmap
  • Implicitly hiding/deleting a pinned association removes detail from screen
  • Hide-multi for implicitly hidden associations
  • Box-selecting an association emits no "is already in list" console error
• API:
  • Attribute contextCommands: allow disabled function to return a promise
  • Composability: emit topic-pin and assoc-pin events
• Chore: upgrade to cytoscape-cxtmenu 3.1.0 (async menus!)

0.18 -- Apr 1, 2019

• Features:
  • Auto assoc revelation
  • Persistent topicmap pan/zoom state
  • Support for assoc visibility
• API: add select param to revealRelatedTopic() action
• Fixes:
  • Positioning of rotated assoc labels
  • Pin/unpin when lacking write permission
• Composability: don't dispatch into host app (no router calls)

0.17 -- Mar 2, 2019

• Features:
  • The display of in-map details is optional on a per-selection basis
  • Alt-right clicking a topic/assoc invokes a (configurable) "danger zone" menu
• Fixes:
  • Update icons when topics are hidden
  • Various client-sync fixes in conjunction with hidden topics
  • Don't play restore animation if no in-map details are removed
• Chore:
  • Internal refactoring: more efficient communication with dm5-topicmap-panel parent component

0.16 -- Jan 29, 2019

• API:
  • Promise returned by renderTopicmap action resolves with topicmap
  • Context commands: caller can provide function to disable commands dynamically
• Fixes:
  • No context menu for "edge handle" nodes
  • Pinned assocs which have assoc players
  • Remove assocs with assoc players from client state on hide/delete
  • Client-sync when revealing assocs with assoc players
  • addAssocToTopicmap message contains assoc view props
  • Make async operations more robust
• Chore:
  • Adapt to dm5 library and cytoscpae-edge-connections
  • Internal refactoring
  • Change license to GPL-3.0-or-later

0.15 -- Jan 5, 2019

• Assocs can connect other assocs (utilizing cytoscpae-edge-connections)
• New create-association gesture: drawing instead of drag'n'drop (utilizing cytoscape-edgehandles)
• Rename event topic-drop-on-topic -> assoc-create

0.14 -- Dec 21, 2018

• Cytoscape 3.3 compatibility: don't put Cytoscape objects in Vue state

0.13 -- Nov 24, 2018

• Add visibleAssocIds getter
• Add cyEdge() argument check

0.12 -- Nov 7, 2018

• Debounce node resizing
• Fix: update assoc color on retype

0.11 -- Oct 21, 2018

• Rename component prop object-renderers to detail-renderers. It contains both, object and value renderers.
• Fix: refresh topic icons and assoc colors on view config change

0.10 -- Oct 6, 2018

• In-map detail component does not render title. The underlying object renderer has full rendering control.
• Store module provides a visibleTopicIds getter

0.9 -- Jul 31, 2018

• Change type URI prefixes dm4 -> dmx
• Add GitLab CI/CD

0.8 -- Jul 17, 2018

• Fixes:
  • Visualization of selected pinned details
  • Revealing assoc-related topics
  • Renaming types

0.7 -- Jun 20, 2018

• Multi-selection:
  • Hide/Delete multiple topics/assocs
  • For multi-operations a single request is sent
• Fixes:
  • Executing "Delete" command when context menu is opened via tap-hold
  • Unpin topic/assoc on delete
• Improved composability: component emits topics-drag event to signalize a multi-move

0.6 -- Jun 6, 2018

• Multi-selection: disable "single-only" context commands
• Fix: interacting with assocs when they are expanded

0.5 -- May 13, 2018

• Multi-selection:
  • Move multiple topics
  • Issue context commands for multiple topics
  • Fix: unpin topic/assoc on hide

0.4 -- May 1, 2018

• Support for multi-selection:
  • 2 new component events: topic-unselect, assoc-unselect
  • 2 new low-level actions: _syncSelect, _syncUnselect

0.3 -- Apr 10, 2018

• Fix: sync writable flag with parent component

0.2 -- Apr 7, 2018

• Compatible with dm5-topicmap-panel's renderer switching architecture

0.1 -- Mar 26, 2018

• Factored out as a standalone component from:
  https://github.com/jri/dm5-topicmap-panel

Jörg Richter
Mar 30, 2020