User Interface Overview
Workflow Tabs: Each Workflow has its own tab. The cog icon informs about the state of a workflow (stopped or executing). | ||
Workflow View: This is where Units are placed, arranged, connected and modified. The background and the behavior of the Workflow view can be configured in the Inspector. | ||
Inspector: Shows general project settings, variables, parameters. | ||
Message Log: Displays general information, output of Units and Workflow tracing info. | ||
Memory Monitor: Displays memory allocation for the current project. |
User Interface: Inspector Tabs
Explained here are the tabs, from left to right.
Project: Project specific settings. | ||
Attributes: Shows the attributes of a selected Unit. | ||
Unit Library: Lists all available Units and shows a short description. | ||
Layout and Workspace: Contains several Workspace related options. | ||
File Browser: A file browser to browse your file system. | ||
Daemons: Discovers and lists on:core Daemons. |
User Interface: Inspector – Project Tab
Workflows: Lists all Workflows of the current Project. | ||
Variables: Lists all variables of the current Project. | ||
| Global: Shows global settings. |
User Interface: Inspector – Project Tab – Workflows
Workflow List: Lists all Workflows of the current Project. | ||
Add Workflow: Lists all variables of the current Project. | ||
Duplicate Workflow: Duplicates the selected Workflow. | ||
Remove Workflow: Removes the selected Workflow. | ||
Workflow Name: Here you can specify the name of the selected Workflow. | ||
Execute On Run: When enabled, the selected Workflow is being executed when the Project is running. | ||
Show Port Values: Shows values (which are transmitted via cables) next to the ports of Units. | ||
Show Cable Values: Shows values which are transmitted via cables. | ||
Show Dataflow Visualization: Highlights cables when data is transmitted. | ||
Cable Highlighting: Select how cables will be rendered. | ||
| Lock Workflow: Locked workflows cannot be deleted. |
User Interface: Message Log & Memory Monitor
Log Options: Determine which log entries will be shown. | |
Show/Hide Memory Monitor: Shows or hides the Memory Monitor (on the right of the Message Log). | |
Enable/Disable Workflow Tracing: When enabled the Workflow(s) are being traced when executing them. Tracing logs each step/action/event which occurs in a Workflow. | |
Reveal Log: Reveals the logfile in the OS filesystem. | |
Clear Log: Clears the Message Log. | |
Date Column: Each Log entry has a timestamp, displayed in this column. | |
Level: There are several levels of messages (info, debug, warn, error, fatal and trace). | |
Message: Content of the log entry. | |
Memory Monitor: Displays how much memory is allocated and used for the current project. | |
Run GC: Manually executes garbage collection (frees up memory, if possible). |