The canvas toolbar

The canvas toolbar floats at the top of the canvas. It holds what you do on the canvas itself: add a node, lay the graph out, zoom, the description cards, the tour, the history and following the assistant. Each action lives only here and in the menus, not on the top toolbar.

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Buttons, from left to right

ButtonWhat it does
NodeOpens the node search (Add node, Ctrl+K). See Adding nodes.
ArrangeArrange the graph (Ctrl+Shift+L): lays the graph out from left to right; with two or more nodes selected, only those.
magnifier with a minusZoom out (Ctrl+-).
the percent numberActual size: back to 100 % (Ctrl+0).
magnifier with a plusZoom in (Ctrl+=).
four cornersFit to view: the whole graph in view (Shift+1).
DescriptionsSwitches the description cards: own notes only, then all nodes, then off. The tooltip says the mode now, for example "Descriptions: own notes only. Click for all nodes". See Description cards.
TourStarts the tour of the graph; pressed again, ends it.
clock with an arrowReplay history: a slider over the earlier versions of the graph. See History and undo.
paper planeFollow the assistant: while the assistant builds, the view goes to each new node. Lit means on.
Accept all (3) and Reject allAppear when the assistant left two or more grey drafts. Accept or reject them all. See Grey drafts.

The tour bar

While a tour runs, a second bar appears under the toolbar: Previous step, Play / Pause, Next step, "Step 2 of 7" and End tour.

The replay bar

While a replay shows, the history button turns into a bar: Play / Pause, a slider (Version), Return to this version and Exit replay. The canvas shows "Version 12 of 40: add KSampler. Read-only." With no history yet it says "No history yet." Node, Arrange and Tour are hidden while a version is shown.

The live build strip

While the assistant builds, a strip under the canvas toolbar says "The assistant is building: step 3 of 8" and, after a colon, the reason for that step. It has Pause the build, Resume the build, Stop the build and Show all now. While the build is paused, it says "The assistant is paused at step 3 of 8. Press Continue to go on or Stop to end the build; what is built stays." See Build.

See also

This page is imported from the application repository's wiki (docs/wiki/interface/Canvas-Toolbar.md, revision b8e3f71). The same guide is built into the app: Help ▸ User guide.

To refresh it, run npm run import and then npm run build in the website folder.