I keep wanting to create diagrams of instruments to help me see how things
are connected. I've tried Dia in the past and then would give up, not having
any shapes that worked just right. This time I am starting the process of
creating the shapes to use. My question is, has someone else already done
this? If not, my next question is, where do I find out the standard for what
shapes to use for the different opcodes? Is there a standard? 
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Brent Boylan wrote:
> I keep wanting to create diagrams of instruments to help me see how things
> are connected. I've tried Dia in the past and then would give up, not having
> any shapes that worked just right. 

I use Dia at work to create relational database schemas.  I noticed
that the files were saved in XML format.  I was able to write a DOM
parser in python that would read the dia diagram, and output the
SQL necessary to create the database from it.  Nice way to develop
a database.  Perhaps a similar thing could be done with whatever
csound orchestras you create with dia.

Aren't there already some graphical tools though, that can generate
csound orchestras based on a diagram?

> Aren't there already some graphical tools though, that can generate
> csound orchestras based on a diagram?

there is one in Surmulot (for Windows):
http://www.zogotounga.net/surmulot/surmulot.html

screenshot here:
http://www.zogotounga.net/comp/squeak/csblocks.htm


regards,

Stef