Ever see this: dia2code?

[Paul Johnson]

This program can take a dia diagram/drawing and convert it to skeleton 
code for a set of classes.
http://dia2code.sourceforge.net/

It is the kind of thing that I had always thought would be handy, 
especially in teaching but also in "roughing out" projects.  If you look 
at the beautiful picture I made for the Artificial Stock Market 2.2
(http://artstkmkt.sourceforge.net/ASM-Docs/) you see I do like pictures.

Anyway, suppose dia2code did work, or we help its author fix it up.  As 
far as I can see, it is of limited usefulness because it is a 
"draw-once" program, there is no way to take the class files, edit them, 
and then generate a new picture for them. At least I don't see one.

But if we could "round trip" projects--draw, generate, edit, redraw--I 
think this could be a handy thing.

Since there are so many programmers around here, I wondered if somebody 
would look at this at tell me what kind of a project it would be to 
develop this round tripping capability.  Or, perhaps more accurately, 
how much would you expect a professor to pay for the development of such 
a tool, if you know what I mean.  How much should be budgeted?

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