Exactly. I think you've explained it well, thanks.

MadaboutDana wrote:

This is actually a very sophisticated requirement – one you'd
normally want dedicated software to achieve. Knowing a bit about martial
arts myself, I can see a whole lot of ramifications of the various
scenarios you've described. Not least, how best to describe them so
users can "hook in" to the bits most immediately relevant to what
they're trying to do. The combination of visual flows plus an underlying
database for instant referencing is already complex – the
option to fork into multiple possible responses, and then immediately
fork again, well, that's really heavyweight stuff. That's because
certain paths are going to converge with some paths, while other paths
are going to diverge into their own specific areas. So you've got to
take duplication/repetition into account as well.

I'm not at all convinced Flying Logic is powerful enough to do this
– but it may be. Whether it also supports the appropriate
visualisation I don't know. I can't immediately think of any software
that could do what you're describing, although I can think of various
software components that could be combined to build a tool for this kind
of visualisation.

Any programmers in the forum with insights into the underlying
requirements?