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This last week I’ve worked on making the visualization more user friendly.  Previously I was having an issue with the scroll bar I added to the clauses textbox.  Since I had also attached the graph to a Pan Zoom Control, when I was scrolling the text box I was also moving the graph!  After a little reading and some trial and error the problem has been fixed.

We discussed in one of our earlier meetings the possibility of adding a slider bar to indicate how the progress of the graph.  The user can still build the graph using the left and right arrows, however if the graph is very large, building the graph can take a long time. These large graphs are the main reason we decided to implement the slider bar.  The user is now able to use the slider bar to build the graph.  This is a very nice feature that has been implemented; however it needs a little bit of work yet.  There is some difficulty getting focus on the slider bar when the program is first launched. I will continue working on this issue throughout the week. We have a scheduled meeting this upcoming Thursday to discuss what the final visualization will include (since the deadline is only about a month away) and begin designing the poster for the poster session at Grace Hopper 2012.