Subsections

• Animation of Layout Phases
• Animating Graph Specification Sequences

Animation Options

aiSee employs two different animation concepts. First, some internal layout calculations can be animated under the control of some options.

Second, the entire aiSee tool can be used as an animation handler which animates a sequence of graph specifications. Note that this has nothing to do with the -multi option.

Animation of Layout Phases

-tanim

  Animates the layer partitioning phase.

-canim

  Animates the crossing reduction heuristics.

-panim

  Animates the positioning heuristics (normal mode).

-epanim

  Animates the positioning heuristics (extended mode).

-amax <num>

  See amax.

Animating Graph Specification Sequences

-a <num> | -animation <num> | -animwait <num>

       Starts aiSee as an animation handler. After relayout, aiSee sleeps for <num> seconds then attempts a callback to the parent process. Callback is controlled by the -callback, -touchback, and -sigback options.

-callback

  The parent process is contacted after each relayout by the X11 event ClientMessage. Communication between the parent process and aiSee doesn't work unless aiSee was started with the -x11msg option.

-sigback

  The parent process is contacted after each relayout by the SIGUSR1signal.

-touchback

  The parent process is contacted after each relayout by accessing the specification file.