3. Info Editor

Figure 2.4. The Info Editor Toolbar

The Info Editor Toolbar

This sub-window is divided in three tabs : Property, Element, Hierarchy.

Property

This window enables to display properties of nodes and edges as array. It is composed of three part, the first one displays all the values of all nodes in text format using spreed sheets. It is possible to display only the values of selected elements by using the filter option. The user can modify directly a value by clicking on the value in the array. It is possible to set all the nodes or edges value with the “Set all” buttons. If the user is in filter mode, this to button will only affect the selected values. an other possibility is to set to the label the property values by pushing the “To labels” button. The second part is a list of all local and inherited properties of a graph. An inherited properties is a property which belongs to a graph upper in the hierarchy of graph, an other tab.

Element

This tab shows informations about an element of the graph : node or edge. At the top, you can found the type of the element and its “id”. to follow, thers is an array for displaying the properties of this elements and the values. It is possible to change the properties with this array.

Figure 2.5. The Element Tab

The Element Tab

Hierarchy