Visual analyser

Describe the use of Fluxtion graph visualiser

Introduction

Fluxtion provides a graph visualiser as part of its tool suite. The goal of the visualiser is to allow non-developers to understand the processing logic in the generated SEP. The visualiser provides the following functionality:

load a graphml generated by Fluxtion esc for rendering
Clearly identify, events, nodes and event handlers
Inidicate stereotype, class type and instance name
Indicate event event propagation direction and dependencies
Search for nodes by name
Zoom in/out
Drag and drop loading
Click node showing execution path memberships
Double click node shows direct parents and children
Export current view to png
Load history for quick graphml loading
Designed for plugin extension

Executing visualiser

The visualiser is distributed as an executable jar located in its dist directory and can be run by double clicking on the jar or with java -jar from the command line.

Loading graphml

To load a graphml navigate to the generated graphml file and drop onto the main window of the application, see video clip on youtube.

Filtering

Graphs can become complex and difficult to read, visualiser allows filtering based on connected nodes or via string match.

For connected node filtering click a node this will blur any non-connected nodes
Type in text box, selects any node that matches text and removes any disconnected nodes for the selection.