Navigation Menu

The Navigation menu contains operations for performing actions on the node selection, such as selecting relatives and neighbours of a node, and to search for nodes with a particular text.

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

Node Selection Operations

• Select Parents
  Changing the selection to highlight all parent nodes of the currently selected nodes.

• Select Siblings
  Changing the selection to highlight all sibling nodes of the currently selected nodes. The siblings of a node are all children of all parents of that node.

• Select Children
  Changing the selection to highlight all child nodes of the currently selected nodes.

• Navigator...
  Used to move the focus in a graph. Starting at a selected node, both neighbour- and relative nodes can be reached in all four directions. After selecting this menu entry, a navigator dialog window will appear. Note: Navigation is also available by using the cursor keys on the keyboard.

• Find...
  Searching for a node with a particular text. After selecting this menu entry, a find dialog window will appear. If exactly one node is selected, the search starts behind this node, otherwise it begins at the topmost and leftmost node in the graph (for top-down layouts).

• Find Again
  Continuing a search operation to find the next node with a particular text which has been specified before in the find dialog, without opening this window again. Therefore, the operation is only available when a text is entered in the find dialog. If exactly one node is selected, the search continues behind this node, otherwise the search begins at the topmost and leftmost node in the graph (for top-down layouts). This operation beeps when there is no node matching the search criteria.