Archive for December, 2006


Thesaurus Roamer in Flex

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

Try out this new thesaurus roamer, written in Adobe Flex using the Roamer component. And download the latest version of the Roamer/SpringGraph components (version 20061210, 208k).

I had some unexpected extra time available, so I wrote a thesaurus roamer reminiscent of the classic ThinkMap Visual Thesaurus. The data for the thesaurus comes from thesaurus.com, by way of (using the data mapper thesaurusreferencecom2. The UI is well, um, a springgraph. I’ve added a couple of new some ideas for presenting and navigating the history of items that you’ve visited. As usual, the source code is available by right-clicking.

The Roamer component is where the new history handling takes place: back/forward controls, a way to display the history in other components, and better control over how history items appear on the screen. The SpringGraph component now gives you a way to create different views for different kinds of items.

Recent improvements to SpringGraph graph visualizer

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006