Plotting a graph with given node positions about graphmakie.jl HOT 3 CLOSED

Hello :)
yeah this part may be confusing. GraphMakie does not know anything about the internals of NetworkLayout. It just wants a function layout, any function really, which takes a Graph object as an input and returns a vector of node positions.
If you want to use fixed points you can just define a function which returns the same set of points for every graph:

fixed_layout = (g) -> points

The full example looks like this

julia> using GLMakie, GraphMakie, Graphs;

julia> positions = Point.([(0,0), (1,0), (1,1)])

julia> g = complete_graph(3);

julia> graphplot(g; layout=_->positions)

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It just wants a function layout, any function really, which takes a Graph object as an input and returns a vector of node positions.

Ah, that's the key part I was missing! Thank you for getting back to me with the explanation and a simple example. Definitely cleared things up for me and now things are working as expected. :)

It might be helpful to make this a bit clearer in GraphMakie's docs. Would you be interested in a PR for this?

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Yeah for sure, PRs welcome! The docstring of graphplot mentions this but very briefly

https://github.com/JuliaPlots/GraphMakie.jl/blob/649f1aec493bc57fdd3ca66e57d6b5eaaf946af4/src/recipes.jl#L27

and the part about layouts could also be better...

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