The properties menu and its content


The properties menu contains menu items used to change the properties of the program and the graph. The Show quickmenus alternative shows a submenu where it is possible to select which submenus to display. The submenu state is saved in the program properties files so the same toolbars will be displayed next time you start the program.

The dialogs that comes up when Graph properties... and the Properties... alternatives have been chosen needs some more explanation so they are described in the two sections that comes next.

The graph properties dialog

This dialog comes up when you select the Graph properties... alternative. In this dialog it is possible to select settings that is directly related to the graph. The settings is saved to the graph file when you save a graph file and loaded when you open graph from a file.

The dialog is devided in two parts. One is a list that is to the left. The list contains a number of names of settings modules. To the right is the currently selected settings module displayed. To change settings module klick on the name of the settings module you want to change. To save all changed settings that have been done in the diffrent settings modules click on the Save button in the bottom right corner. If you don't want to save the changes click on the cancel button next to it. The different settings modules is described in the sections bellow.

Background properties


Here the background color of the graph is selected.

Default vertex shape


In this module you can select the default vertex shape. The default vertex shape is the shape of the vertex that is inserted when you do insert commands like for example putting out vertices in insert mode by clicking in the graph window. The shape that you select in the drop down menu in the top of the module is displayed under it.

There exists one shape called DEFAULT that is diffrent from the others. The DEFAULT shape can be any of the other shape. There fore ehen you select the DEFAULT shape it is also possible to select which shape that shall be set as the DEFAULT at the moment. If you have inserted vertices with the DEFAULT shape it is possible to change them afterwars by changeing the actual shape of the DEFAULT shape.

Default vertex color


Here it is possible to select the default vertex color. That is the color of the vertexed inserted by insert commands like clicking in the graph window when insert mode is on. The module is devided into two parts.

In the uper part you can select the backround color of vertices. That is the color inside the selected shape that has borders with the foreground color. One option is to use the graph backround color as tha background color for vertices. If you unselect that option it is possible to choose a background color by clicking on the Select new default color... button.

You can select the default vertex foreground color in the lower part. The forground color is the border of the shape that the vertex is made up by.

The global properties dialog

The global properties is the program properties that is used for all opened programs. The global properties is saved in the .grapheditor/properties.xml file in the user home directory. The user home directory is the directory given by the java system as the home directory. The dialogs structure is the same as in the graph properties dialog. The diffrent settings modules in it are described in the sections bellow.

Graph drawing


Here you can change some drawing alternatives for the graph.

Look and feel


In this module you can select the look and feel for the program. A look and feel is a collection of settings that deside how the user interface will look and behave. Which look and feels that is avable depends on tha java version the program is running on.