Visual representation of data

Posted by Eduardo Mauro
Sep 2, 2010 at 06:19 PM

Hi Quant,

Let me try to address some of your comments:

- deleted one item, moved around, got error message ?invalid class typecast?
- one click doesn?t seem to do anything on the navigator

True. If you double click a topic it will be presented in the viewer.

- moving item reorganizes items in such a way, that I was lost (maybe just needs time to get used to)

The graph is reorganized automatically after an it is moved using a force related algorithm.

- couldn?t find the zoom and rotate for navigator (is there?) and how many connections the graph should display

You can zoom using the mouse wheel. There are two buttons in the toolbar that can be used to rotate the graph.

- the biggest problem was that I could not find a way to connect two items in the navigator, tried holding, clicking, shift, ctrl was connecting something, but I didn?t figure out what, definitelly not the item I had selected and then clicking on the other,

You can’t link two topics using the navigator because ConnectedText is a wiki system. Connections are made in the text using [[ ]]. The navigator just shows the how your topics are linked. It is not a tool for linking them. In Personal Brain you can link two topics. In CT just enclose any word or words with [[ ]] and a link is created which will shown in the navigator. It is a different concept. May work for some users and may not for others.

I will be glad to answer any question regarding CT. I know that documentation may be a deficiency of CT. All information about it you can found in a project that is bundled with the program. It is also functions as help through F1 key.

Eduardo Mauro
ConnectedText