Overlapping node labels

[drelliche]

Problem: the node labels overlap in the graph display, making them hard to read.

While this looks like a small problem, it will likely require a total overhaul of the way the graph is rendered because changing which modules are selected will need to change the way the nodes are displayed.

Possible things to try:

• Change graph layout (see loading external layouts documentation)
• Layouts other than cose may work better with the avoiding overlap settings:

 layout={'name': 'cose', 
                            'nodeDimensionsIncludeLabels': 'true',
                            'avoidOverlap':'true'
                            },

• reload the graph each time, rather than just updating the stylesheet (different displayed nodes need to be moved around as their labels are turned on and off)
• Consider other visualization tools (Cytoscape may only have so much utility, and doesn't need to be the final version)

[drelliche]

@pm0kjp let me know if you have any suggestions or thoughts, this may end up being a pretty big lift, though it is definitely doable and worth doing.

[drelliche]

One stopgap measure for the prototype may be to just tell Cytoscape where to put the nodes (i.e. drag them to a "right initial spot" and then pipe those coordinates in)

[drelliche]

The latest updates allow users to turn node labels on and off, which may be a good (sufficient?) alternative (solution?) for this.

Unless, or until, the visualizations get fully implemented in javascript.