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Message Characters

Graph layout and drawing is a rather complex process. aiSee issues messages in the form of a single character to indicate its state (see Table 4).   This is useful in following the progress of layout calculation and for tuning layout speed (see layout time).


 
Table 4: Layout Phases and Message Characters
Key Phase
a Parsing
q Force-directed layout
f Folding
p Rank Assignment
u Unmerge Connected Components
b Crossing Reduction, Phase 1
B Crossing Reduction, Phase 2
l Local Crossing Optimization
T Tree Layout
m Pendulum Method
c Rubberband Method
d Spline Drawing
S Straight-Line Phase
e Edge Bending
t Timeout
x PostScript Export Operation
 


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