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daVinci API Definition - Visual Commands

On this page, API commands of the visual category are described. This category covers all commands to work with visualization definitions. The commands of this category are enclosed by keyword visual(...). Click here to get an overview of all API commands.

Further details about visualization definitions can be found in the concepts document.

Documentation of the Category Commands:

visual(new_rules(visual_rules))

The parameter of the command is a list of visualization rules with two different kinds of list elements, which make up the visualization definition. Both types of elements can be mixed in arbitrary order:

nr(type,attributes)
Define the visualization rule (attributes) for all nodes of the given type. The usable attributes are explained in the term representation reference.
er(type,attributes)
Define the visualization rule (attributes) for all edges of the given type. The usable attributes are explained in the term representation reference.

This command first removes all defined visualization rules and than inserts the newly defined rules.

You can overwrite the default values of daVinci if you supply rules for type "".

visual(add_rules(visual_rules))

This command has the same behaviour as the command visual(new_rules(...)), but it doesn't remove the visualization rules before adding the new ones. This means, that rules for a type already present are overwritten and all other rules are added to the visualization definition.

You can overwrite the default values of daVinci if you supply rules for type "".

daVinci V2.1 Online Documentation - Page update: June 15, 1998