aiSee: User Actions and DDE

aiSee can be easily integrated into and intercommunicate with other applications.

aiSee 3 for Windows and Linux can communicate with other applications via TCP. For further information, see our FAQs or the PDF manual that is included in the aiSee 3 distribution package.
The Windows version of aiSee 2 communicates over a Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) channel.
The Unix versions of aiSee 2 use user signals.

aiSee features the concept of User Actions and allows commands to be associated with nodes. This means that nodes can be selected and their titles communicated to an application for processing. Two examples of application scenarios are:

Interactive sitemaps

A script processes HTML code, extracts hyperlinks and passes the information to aiSee.
aiSee visualizes the linkage graph (see our Web-based demo).
The user clicks on a node and the corresponding Web page is opened in a Web browser or a text editor.

Editing graphs with aiSee

An application produces a GDL file and tells aiSee to display the graph.
The user selects two nodes, followed by applying a User Action called “Delete Edge” or “Add Edge”.
aiSee communicates the node titles back to the application which processes the GDL file, deletes or adds the edge, and tells aiSee to display the new graph.

aiSee 2 allows up to four commands to be specified in the graph description. The user can then execute these commands by invoking the corresponding entries of the "Auxiliaries" menu. The command specified for

User Action 1 and 2 takes no argument at all,
User Action 3 takes one argument,
User Action 4 takes a list of arguments.

The supplied arguments for User Action 3 and 4 are a node title or a list of node titles respectively, i.e. before these commands are executed the user has to click on a node or a set of nodes whose node titles are passed to the command.

The menu entries corresponding to the User Actions in the "Auxiliaries" menu can be specified as well.

aiSee 2 User Actions Demo (.tgz, 1kB, )
Requires aiSee 2.

How to install:
> tar -xzvf aiSeeUA.tgz > cd aiSeeUA > aisee demo.gdl

aiSee 2 User Actions Demo (.zip, 2kB, )
Requires aiSee 2. Before running demo.gdl, please change to its installation directory.

aiSee 2 DDE Demo (.exe, 63kB, )
A small C program that demonstrates the use of aiSee 2’s DDE interface. Requires aiSee 2.1.19 or higher. The sources are contained in a self-extracting zip file. Simply follow the on-screen instructions.

aiSee 2 Demo (.tgz, 12kB, )
These are the sources of the demo program which is part of the aiSee 2 trial package.

How to install:
> tar -xzvf aiSeeDEMO.tgz > cd aiseedemo > more vcgdemo.cpp