blockdiag / actdiag

actdiag generate activity-diagram image file from spec-text file.

Features

• Generate activity-diagram from dot like text (basic feature).
• Multilingualization for node-label (utf-8 only).

You can get some examples and generated images on blockdiag.com .

Setup

Use easy_install or pip:

$ sudo easy_install actdiag

Or

$ sudo pip actdiag

spec-text setting sample

Few examples are available. You can get more examples at blockdiag.com .

simple.diag

simple.diag is simply define nodes and transitions by dot-like text format:

diagram {
  A -> B -> C;
  lane you {
    A; B;
  }
  lane me {
    C;
  }
}

Usage

Execute actdiag command:

$ actdiag simple.diag
$ ls simple.png
simple.png

Requirements

• Python 3.7 or later
• blockdiag 1.5.0 or later
• funcparserlib 0.3.6 or later
• reportlab (optional)
• wand and imagemagick (optional)
• setuptools

License

Apache License 2.0

actdiag's Issues

flowchart type does not work properly with back edges

actdiag {
edge_layout  = flowchart
  swipe -> pos  -> pos_machine_bank -> network_routing -> issue_bin -> card_bin
 card_bin -> card_db, network_routing2



pos_machine_bank <-> merchant_bank [color=blue, style=dotted] 

  lane cardholder {
    //label = "CardHolder"
    swipe [label = "swipe card"];

  }
  lane POS_machine {
    label = "POS machine"
    pos [label = "POS machine swipe"];
  }
lane acquirer {
    merchant_bank [label = "merchant bank"];
    pos_machine_bank [label = "central POS account"]
  }
lane network {
    network_routing[label="VISA/MC routing"]
    network_routing2[label="network settlemnt"]
  }
 lane card_baas {
  label = "BAAS API startup"
  issue_bin[label = "issue/disable BIN"]
 }
 lane issuer {

  card_bin[label = "actual card account"]
  card_db[shape="flowchart.database", stacked]
 }
}

notice the card_bin -> card_db, network_routing2 edges. they should be separate, not branched. there's no difference whether or not flowchart type is setup

Actidiag 0.5 is broken

After upgrading actdiag:

#!sh

$ actdiag --help
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/simon/lib/virtualenvs/adele-doc/bin/actdiag", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('actdiag==0.5.0', 'console_scripts', 'actdiag')()
  File "/home/simon/lib/virtualenvs/adele-doc/lib/python2.7/site-packages/actdiag/command.py", line 28, in main
    return ActdiagApp().run()
TypeError: run() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)

It seems that actdiag/command.py needs to be updated, taking example on blockdiag, this works for me:

#!python

def main(args=sys.argv[1:]):
    return ActdiagApp().run(args)

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/blockdiag/actdiag/issue/1
• Originally reported by: saimon
• Originally created at: 2013-10-21T11:25:39.774

Upgrade pullow to 10.0.0

I got a error message when i was previewing my adoc file
Fialed to generate image: actdiag.EXE failed: ERROR: module 'PIL.Image' has no attribute 'ANTIALIAS'
I found some answers that suggest employ LANCZOS instand

pivot swim lanes to run horizontal - support separate swim lanes with adjoining connectors

Drop nose in favor of unittest or pytest

Hello,

nose's development has stopped since 2016, however actdiag still requires it. It would make sense to move to a different test runner.

Feature request: Add an option for parallelism

For both simple flowcharts, which one can generate with blockdiag and more standard activity diagrams created with actdiag a horizontal bar for parallelism would be nice to have.