aiSee: Quick Guide
Please note:
aiSee offers a number of complex selection
procedures (e.g. for selecting sets of subgraphs).
The user is guided through these procedures by instructions in the
message window.
- Click in the graph window using the middle or
right mouse button; hold the button down.
- Move pointer over the ‘=>’ arrows to access the submenus.
- Release mouse button to invoke the operation selected.
- Scroll through graphs using the cursor keys.
- Use the scrollbars for fine-positioning.
- Move graphs:
- Press the left mouse button and hold it down.
- Drag across the graph window.
- The graph is moved after the mouse button is released.
- See submenus Scroll, Pick Position,
Center Node…, or Follow Edge for
advanced navigation features.
- Using the panner window:
- Select Panner in the Scroll submenu to open the panner window.
- Move the dashed rectangle around in the panner window to browse through the graph.
- Use picking position:
Strike ‘p’. The mouse pointer turns into a +. Now you can do either of the following:
- Changing the focus: Click in the graph window using any
mouse button to shift the focus to the upper right corner of
the window (in normal view) or to set the focus (in fish eye-view).
- Rubberbanding: Press the left mouse button and hold it down.
Now drag the mouse pointer across a portion of the graph to zoom
it to window size.
- Strike ‘n’ to open the
Center Node dialog box.
- Strike ‘e’ to initiate
Follow Edge navigation.
Detailed instructions will be given in the message window.
- Use the right scaling scrollbar to scale graphs.
- Use the keys ‘+’ or ‘-’ to magnify or to scale down the graph.
- Strike ‘m’ to set the scale factor so that the entire graph fits in the
graph window (maximum aspect).
- Strike ‘0’ to set the scale factor to normal (100% absolute).
- See submenu Information.
- Use hot keys:
- Select a node by left-clicking on it
- Strike ‘i’, ‘j’, or ‘k’ to view that node’s information field 1, 2, or 3
- Click inside an open information field to close it again
- To view additional information fields of several nodes
at once, first strike ‘i’, ‘j’, or ‘k’, then select nodes. Left-click
on an information field to close it again. Right-click to close all information fields.
- See submenu Folding.
- Use hot keys:
- Select a subgraph by left-clicking on any of its nodes
- Strike ‘f’ to fold the subgraph into a summary node (Fold Subgraph),
‘x’ to unfold a summary node into a box (Unfold into Box),
‘u’ to unbox/unfold a summary node (Unbox/Unfold)
- To fold/box/unfold several subgraphs at once,
first strike ‘f’, ‘x’, or ‘u’, then select subgraphs, then
right-click to apply.
- Strike ‘q’ to quit aiSee.
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