Family Tree App - Helllllp

[dr85]

hi all,

I have built a family tree program which thus far allows you to add relationships to nodes (mother, father, partner & siblings). This allows the tree to be built. well at least the links to be made.

My problem is I have to represent the tree textually. This is proving to be very hard. I thought of allowing to display the ancestors and descendants for a particular node but this proves to be difficult, especially when there are more than two generations for displaying ancestors (great grandparents and above).

To make things more clear I thought of using a file tree structure but got into a mess when displaying for great grandparents.

I can provide the source if anyone wants to see it.

Thanks for your time and expertise.

David

[MediumDave]

What structure do you have the family tree stored in?

[dr85]

Thanks for the reply. I store the family members in an arraylist. each member points to other members in the arraylist (mother, father or child).

[goldest]

Cross-posted here: Java Programming Forums

Goldest

[MediumDave]

And how do you want this laid out? ie, how would you draw it in real life with a piece of paper?

Also, do you have methods that can identify the lowest descedant nodes and highest ancestor nodes? If you do, then I guess you just have to traverse the tree and write out the nodes as you find them, and do not iterate over nodes you have already processed.

How do you envisage this looking?