Display Graph using Boost Graph Library

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Display Graph using Boost Graph Library

Can anyone please tell me that once I've created a graph using Boost Graph library, how can I display that graph?

My biggest concern is that the edge weights are coming from an exernal data source over the network. And I need to be able to display the edgeweights live as they get updated.

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Displaying graphs is a little bit harder then you seem to imagine. Your best bet is to use GraphViz through write_graphviz to create a visual representation of your graph.

Updating that graph "live" is a lot harder and you won't get anywhere with GraphViz but would need some real-time-graphics API and graph layouting algorithms that work continously.

pmr 2010-04-28 08:01:30

I'm not aware of any open source graph visualization libraries that let you "edit" the visual representations that they produce, and, unfortunately, commercial ones are pretty expensive.

Eric 2010-04-28 09:42:42

@Eric Guess he would have to hack it himself. Sounds like fun though. Some 2D OpenGL wrapper for graphs + layout algorithm + animation of layout transitions.

pmr 2010-04-28 10:11:04

Well, can you guys please give me some starting point that I can start looking into. What sort of real-time-graphics API have you guys used or can you recommend?

TheTSPSolver 2010-04-28 13:24:58

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