| PullDownMenu | ||
|---|---|---|
| Command | Discription | |
| File | ||
| Clear Network | Clears all nodes and links that are current displayed | |
| Center Network | Centers the viewing display on the location that is the average distance from all the nodes | |
| Load Network | Searchs a directory (./Data for standalone, a URL for Applet) and then lists the files in a pop up window. The user may then choose one of them to download. The applet will only display files that end with the `.fvl'. While the standalone will display all files. | |
| Exit | Exits from Plankton. | |
| Interaction | ||
| Select Root | Changes a node into a root node, or the other way around, when the mouse is clicked on it. | |
| Select Object | Allows the user to select nodes. Selected nodes will change there postion when the mouse button is held down and the mouse is dragged around inside of the display. | |
| Select by Name | Selects all nodes that contain a string in thier name. | |
| Select Tree | Select a node and all it's children. Where all it's children means those nodes which are placed below it in the formating process. | |
| Move | Will move all the relative locations for all nodes when the user holds down and drag the mouse around. | |
| Deslect All Objects | Deselects any selected nodes | |
| Auto Arrange | Attempts to place nodes in a tree like structor which grows from the root nodes away fron the center. | |
| Resolution | ||
| High res | all links are trangles (slower) | |
| Los res | all links are lines (recommanded when move nodes) | |
| Zoom | ||
| Will scale the current dimenions of the node locations by the amount indicated. | ||
| Color by | ||
| HTTP Request | will create a color scale and then color each link and node by the humber of HTTP requests it gets | Default Colors | Returns the link's an node's color to their defualt colors |
| Help | ||
| Brings up a pop up window that will display | ||
| Commands | A in code version of this file | |
| About | Information about Plankton such as when it was written, programmer ... | |
| Overview | Some useful information about link and node Chrateristics | |