View Menu

The View menu contains operations for changing the user's view to the data: Opening additional views to a graph, setting the scale of a graph visualization, or getting information.

Note: Menus can also be used mouseless with keyboard commands.

Multi-View Management

• Open New View
  This operation opens an additional view (base window) to the graph. Read more about multi-view and multi-graph in the concept document. All views of a graph are coupled with eachother, so interactions in one view affect the graph visualization in all the other views of the same graph, too. Loading a graph in one view disconnects this base window from the other views, so the new graph is only displayed in the view where the load operation was triggered. This way, the user can load many different graphs at a time (multi-graph). The maximal number of open base windows in daVinci is 64.

• Open Survey View
  This operation also opens an additional view to the graph, but with some special properties. Read more about multi-view in the concept document. The base window, where this operation is executed, is called detail view. A survey view, which will appear after using this operation, visualizes the graph in a reduced scale to see the whole structure at all times. The scale is reduced automatically when the window size is manipulated. A survey view shows the currently visible area of the corresponding detail view with a blue rectangle. This rectangle is only visible in a survey view when the scale is small enough to show the complete graph. So, if the blue rectangle has become invisible in a survey view, then use menu View/Fit Scale to Window (see below) to get the rectangle back. If the scale of the survey view is 100%, because the graph is already completely visible in the detail view, you will not see the blue rectangle as well. Another useful feature of the survey view is automatic scrolling. When the user selects a node in the survey view, the same node is focused in the corresponding detail view by using animation. This behaviour can be switched off in dialog Options/General Settings... by deselecting checkbox On selection in Survey View. The maximal number of open base windows in daVinci is 64.

• Full Scale
  Used to set the graph visualization scale to 100%.

• Fit Scale to Window
  Used to set the graph visualization scale to the maximal rate where the graph is completely visible in the base window.

• Scale...
  Used to set the graph visualization scale to any rate between 1% and 100%. Read more about scaling in the concept document. After selecting this menu entry, a scale dialog window will appear to set the scale. In a reduced scale, all interactive operations are still available. The scale of a graph can only be reduced with this operation, but not magnified. To magnify a graph visualization, choose a bigger font in dialog Options/Layout Dimensions....

• Graph Info...
  This operation displays the graph info dialog to get statistic informations about the currently visualized graph.

• daVinci Info...
  This operation shows a dialog window with daVinci product informations.