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== What is GraphView ==
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== What is Graph View ==
  
GraphView is a new view plugin that presents a navigable descendant tree using the current active person as a starting point. Clicking another person in the tree will make that person the active person and will redraw the tree based on them.
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'''Graph View''' is a view plugin that presents a navigable descendant tree using the current active person as a starting point. Clicking another person in the family tree will make that person the active person and will redraw the family tree based on them.
  
 
== Features ==
 
== Features ==
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* Interactive
 
* Interactive
 
* The active person is highlighted
 
* The active person is highlighted
* Clicking a person will redraw the tree based on that person
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* Clicking a person will redraw the family tree based on that person
 
* Clicking the active person will show the parent family of the active person, thereby allowing previous generations to be shown
 
* Clicking the active person will show the parent family of the active person, thereby allowing previous generations to be shown
 
* The view can be panned by using mouse click and drag. Select the background of the tree and drag the mouse to pan the view
 
* The view can be panned by using mouse click and drag. Select the background of the tree and drag the mouse to pan the view
 
* The view can be zoomed using a slider
 
* The view can be zoomed using a slider
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* A right mouse click on a person or family node shows the person or family editor as appropriate
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* The view redraws in response to changes made to a person or family. Right click a family to add or delete a spouse or child.
  
 
== Installation ==
 
== Installation ==
  
The GraphView plugin can be installed by downloading [https://gramps-addons.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gramps-addons/download/GraphView.addon.tgz GraphView.addon.tgz] and extracting the contents of the file to your Gramps .plugins directory.
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The Graph View plugin can be installed from within Gramps. Go to Edit -> Preferences and click the 'Check now' button to see a list of plugins which are not installed on your computer.
Graphview also requires the following to be installed:
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Graph View also requires the following to be installed:
 
* Graphviz. If you can run the Gramps Graph reports then you already have this installed.
 
* Graphviz. If you can run the Gramps Graph reports then you already have this installed.
* [http://live.gnome.org/PyGoocanvas PyGoocanvas]
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* [http://live.gnome.org/PyGoocanvas PyGoocanvas] (Gramps3) or [https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GObjectIntrospection Goocanvas2 or gir1.2-goocanvas] (Gramps4)
 
* [http://live.gnome.org/GooCanvas Goocanvas]
 
* [http://live.gnome.org/GooCanvas Goocanvas]
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All of these should be available in common Linux distributions. For example, Debian packages Goocanvas/PyGoocanvas as libgoocanvas3 and python-pygoocanvas.
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Revision as of 12:28, 27 January 2014

Graph view.jpg

What is Graph View

Graph View is a view plugin that presents a navigable descendant tree using the current active person as a starting point. Clicking another person in the family tree will make that person the active person and will redraw the family tree based on them.

Features

  • Interactive
  • The active person is highlighted
  • Clicking a person will redraw the family tree based on that person
  • Clicking the active person will show the parent family of the active person, thereby allowing previous generations to be shown
  • The view can be panned by using mouse click and drag. Select the background of the tree and drag the mouse to pan the view
  • The view can be zoomed using a slider
  • A right mouse click on a person or family node shows the person or family editor as appropriate
  • The view redraws in response to changes made to a person or family. Right click a family to add or delete a spouse or child.

Installation

The Graph View plugin can be installed from within Gramps. Go to Edit -> Preferences and click the 'Check now' button to see a list of plugins which are not installed on your computer.

Graph View also requires the following to be installed:

All of these should be available in common Linux distributions. For example, Debian packages Goocanvas/PyGoocanvas as libgoocanvas3 and python-pygoocanvas.