I’m currently experimenting with Pipelines for helping users through a data processing workflow, and I wonder if the color of the nodes can be made more informative? As far as I can see, we have white nodes for state inactive
, green for active
, yellow for next
.
Since the nodes may define a ready
member variable (which I actually find a bit of a misnomer, since it suggests “ready for processing” but means “finished with processing”), how about using this to define a status of finished
and color the node e.g. black?
Also, I would find it useful to distinguish between unvisited (white) and visited (i.e. instantiated, in case a class is passed to the Pipeline constructor) but unfinished nodes (light blue or grey). My pipeline is ~10 nodes long, and it could well be that the user needs to travel a few steps forward and back to have everything set up as needed. In this case the color codes may help orientation.
Speaking of long pipelines, is there a way to decrease the text size for the node descriptions in the diagram?
Thanks,
Martin