Basic manipulation features
- Pan by left-dragging background.
- Rearrange nodes by left-dragging.
- Shift-Click to Select.
- Shift-Drag to Window Select
- Zoom - Zoom in and out.
- Rotate - Rotates the whole display about the center.
- Hyperbolic - Controls the amount of hyperbolic distortion on the display. This is the "lensing" effect that makes the center of the display "magnify".
Double-click to Open
Double-click on a wikipage node and a new browser window open with the double-clicked page automatically shown.
Right-Click on Node
Opens context sensitive popup menu.
- Edit Wiki Page
- Hide Neighbors
- Hide Node
- Make Decoration
- Show Hidden Edges
- Show Neighbors
- Toggle Node Pinning
Right-Click On Background
Opens context sensitive popup menu.
- Edit Decorations
- Edit Query
- Save Image
- Show Hidden Nodes
- Toggle Unreferenced
Right-Click on Edge
Opens context sensitive popup menu.
Simple Name Search
Try typing a few characters for a rudimentary title (prefix-based) search. A better seach would be interesting if anyone cares to implement it. (Hmmm, it would be cool if the
WikiRPCInterface had a means to request a search, especially if the wiki had the Lucene based search engine!)
Tooltip Page Content
Hover over a wikipage node and the raw wikitext of the page is retrieved and a leading portion of the page text is shown as a tooltip. Very useful if the first sentence or two on the page is a nice description or summary.
Visualization of QueryPlugin results
This plugin accepts a
pages= parameter to feed into an embedded
QueryPlugin instance. This allows a subset of the pages in a wiki to be visualized. This greatly reduces the amount of "tangle" that often is evident with a visualization of a wiki.
SOMEDAY: Dynamic Locality-Shifting Display
The "locality-shifting" feature of the original TouchGraph code is
not implemented, right now the entire graph is shown all at once. Adding some concept of "locality radius" would be very cool, but I probably won't do it anytime soon. My needs are not for a dynamically shifting graph of some radius of nodes, but more a visualiztion of everything present with specific diectives applied to it to "condense" the web of the graph into a more "concise" form. That isn't to say tha tlocality-shifting isn't very cool, and that I wouldn't love to see a patch!!! --
JohnV