Message Characters

Graph layout and drawing is a rather complex process. aiSee issues messages in the form of a single character to indicate its state (see Table 4).   This is useful in following the progress of layout calculation and for tuning layout speed (see layout time).

 

Table 4: Layout Phases and Message Characters

Key	Phase
a	Parsing
q	Force-directed layout
f	Folding
p	Rank Assignment
u	Unmerge Connected Components
b	Crossing Reduction, Phase 1
B	Crossing Reduction, Phase 2
l	Local Crossing Optimization
T	Tree Layout
m	Pendulum Method
c	Rubberband Method
d	Spline Drawing
S	Straight-Line Phase
e	Edge Bending
t	Timeout
x	PostScript Export Operation

 

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