Overview

General Information

• Introduction to daVinci
• Release Notes for daVinci V2.0.3
• Release Notes for daVinci V2.0.2
• Using the Online-Documentation
• Platform Requirements and Installation
• License Agreement
• daVinci's Concepts

User Interface

• Using the Mouse
• Using the Keyboard
• Base Window
• Pop-Up Menu

• File Menu
• Edit Menu
• View Menu
• Navigation Menu
• Abstraction Menu
• Layout Menu
• Options Menu
• Help Menu

Tutorial

• Before you begin
• Managing Files and Basic Tasks
• Optimizing the Graph Layout
• About Scaling, Abstractions, and Navigation
• Multi-Graph and Multi-View
• Using the Graph Editor

Questions & Answers

• Overview
• Availability
• License
• System Features
• Graph Layout
• External Graph Format
• Application Programmer Interface (API)
• Graph Editor Application
• Problems
• Help System / Online Documentation
• More Information

New Features in daVinci V2.1.x

• Fully incremental graph layout
• Subgraph abstractions using incremental layout
• Completely rewritten much faster graph layout algorithm
• New layout menus
• Fine-Tuning for all Layout Orientations
• First implementation of Visualization Rules (API)
• Pop-Up menus for nodes and edges (API)
• Drag and Drop for nodes and edges (API)
• All open windows accessible via API commands
• Some more enhancements to the API
• New command-line options
• New Attributes for Nodes and Edges
• grapheditor will support all new API features, including drag and drop
• Several bug fixes and reduced memory footprint
• Shortcomings

Reference

• Term Representation for Graphs
• API Reference
• PostScript Interface
• Graph Editor Application
• daVinci Tools
• Command-Line Options and Environment Variables
• Bibliography
• Index

daVinci in the Internet

• Sending E-Mail to Developers
• Visiting daVinci WWW Server
• Subscribing to Mailing List
• Getting latest Bugreport
• Getting latest Questions & Answers
• Downloading daVinci