Graphing a HAL configuration

I might not have been clear with my thought.
I meant that it would show only the pins, connections and components related to the selected component.
Of course that could still be a lot of information..

hmm, like some kind of markup in the .hal?
could be, but i am a long way from that.
Thx for the idea about limiting the scene/graph
tomp

Hi,
I think visualizing HAL-connections would be a very nice feature so I´ve also done some experiments a time ago to create a (webbased) viewer:
forum.linuxcnc.org/24-hal-components/429...-for-hal-development
Sourcecode at Github: github.com/dev-git-usr/HAL-Editor
Maybe it´s worth having a look. During the last monts I had not much time to push the project further but i´m still interested in this feature and willing to contribute if desired.

Michael

Thank you MicI did not know of this tool
I will installl and try
Thanks TomP

EDIT:no joy , could not start server, webpack complains 'overlay' is not a valid option

Editor-master$ sudo npm start
[sudo] password for tomp:
> linuxcnc_halbuilder@0.0.1 start
> ./node_modules/.bin/webpack serve --open[webpack-cli]

Invalid options object.
Dev Server has been initialized using an options object that does not match the API schema. 
- options has an unknown property 'overlay'.
These properties are valid:   object { allowedHosts?, bonjour?, client?, compress?, devMiddleware?, headers?,
historyApiFallback?, host?, hot?, http2?, https?, ipc?, liveReload?, magicHtml?, onAfterSetupMiddleware?, onBeforeSetupMiddleware?, onListening?, open?, port?, proxy?, server?, setupExitSignals?, static?,
watchFiles?, webSocketServer? }

the log file is attached
(lots of unresolved deps)
Linux dbn9sda1 4.9.0-16-rt-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Debian 4.9.272-2 (2021-07-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux

thx
tomp

Sorry for the inconvenience,
after a quick test - i think it´s not working properly with npm version 8.x.
I did only test on debian wheezy and buster with older npm/node versions.
Is it possible to install npm v 7.x and test again?

Thanks
Mic

Hello MIc
I installed npm 7.24.2
and it failed same way ( on npm start, invalid property )
The npm/python smart installers are way too complex for me to debug
It would be easier to set up a wheezy partiion than chase the many deps.
I am still working thue NodeEditor using PyCharm and that is being quite a headache too.
thx
tomp

I worked some more on the hal diagrammer. It is an editor, meaning you can chaneg the look of the diagram . Someday I may be able to make it load and save Hal files, but for now ot it loads and saves a json file. I can reposition items, take screen shots and explain the hal files, I have lots to do. I used my own EDM system as the test hal file.  I had tried RockHopper long ago whenit first came out. I IRC,  it was not able to move and edit and save and reload.  But if some kind user would tell me that Rockhopper was an editor ( add items connect items disconnect save load...) Then I would install it and look.  I have spent yonks of time in these efforts and a simple advice could save me  a lot of time. Thanks TomP
( sorry the tgz file is right at the 1.5meg limit, I dunno if it will be available )
BTW PyCharm was a bust, I only use python ( 2.7/3/3.5 all work ) and PyQt5 (no PySide)

Hi Andy, I took your tip about looking into Rockhopper, so I could parse .hal.
I have all the prerequisites for Rockhopper, but I get stuck when i try to run :

I found that the .hal file did not include all the data needed to create the graph ( the datatype and dir of each pin)
I began to use halrun and halreport  to gather the data and decided to look into how Rockhopper did this.
but got stuck...
any idea's ?

(meanwhile i poke around the source code to see what the error means.)
(also,  I got popups and hover info and hyperlinks and subsheets working)

thx TomP