A little bit of an unintentional pause in the release rhythm, but we’re hopefully back to an ordinary schedule now. This release has a few API updates, plus one addition to the GUI: the ability to highlight d-connected nodes. In case you’re not familiar with d-connectedness: Two nodes are d-connected (given existing evidence) if it …
The main additions in this release revolve around being able to change the type of a node (still in progress), and improvements to editing node definitions. There is also a tiny bit of (non-functioning) foreshadowing for some bigger changes to node definitions. Make-Believe R23 [or view latest] Changes: Add editing for function tables (deterministic/discrete and …
This version mostly focuses on giving access to Make-Believe outside of the browser. There are two components to this: an API and a standalone desktop app. I describe those in a bit more detail below. The only other significant change in this version is support for text boxes from .xdsl files (see image at right). …
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Not a whole lot new in this release in comparison to some of the previous releases, with most of the work going into the backend. I’m starting to think about the API for Make-Believe and cleaning things up here and there in preparation for a more friendly and useful API. Two user-facing changes are the …
The focus in this version was cleaning up some of the rougher edges (and outright breakages) from the introduction of submodels. So, it’s now possible to move nodes between submodels from the node context menu. It’s possible to remove all the submodel information from a network using the Network -> Flatten Network command. And it’s …
Submodels are now supported. Submodel nodes are rendered with thick borders to distinguish them from variable nodes. You need to double-click them (as per GeNIe) to open them up, and when you’re in a submodel, the parent model can be accessed by double-clicking the ‘..’ node (obviously inspired by command line navigation) in the top …
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Node colours and formats are now fully supported (create/read/update/delete), however the behaviour deviates from GeNIe a little to allow for “default” (or unspecified) colours. This relies on assuming default colours are the intent if the formatting of a node has been left at GeNIe’s defaults. I’m not happy with this approach, but I can’t think …
Most of the changes in this version have to do with the ability to make changes to the network. So it’s now possible to rename nodes and delete nodes. This functionality can be found when right-clicking a node. Another change is that right-clicking brings up a menu relating to the node. I’m taking a slightly …
A very small update this time, although in a way it’s one of the more substantial changes to the direction of the software. In the past, when you double clicked an ordinary discrete node, a dialog would pop up with the probabilities in the CPT. This still happens, but the numbers are now actually labelled …
For a little while, I’ve been wanting to add support for Netica .dne files, and I’ve managed to finally land something. The support is very crude (even cruder than for GeNIe .xdsl files) and probably very flaky. There’s only support for basic networks with discrete chance nodes — no support at all for deterministic nodes, …
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