4.6 Toolbar

The buttons of the toolbar are divided into four parts: tool selection, dominance edge type preselection, horizontal edge type preselection, and switch to textual mode.

Figure: The toolbar.

Tool selection: Moving/Creating, Creating, Moving

With the leftmost three buttons you can specify how to create objects and how to move nodes:

Move/Create
Objects like nodes, feature-value pairs, and feature values will only be created by a mouse click if the selection is empty. If the selection is not empty, a mouse click in a free area deselects every object.

Create
Regardless whether the selection is empty or not, nodes, feature-value pairs, and feature values can be created by a mouse click at the appropriate location. For deselection click on a selected object or use the context menu (cf. subsection 4.7).

Move
Nodes, feature-value pairs, feature values, and edges cannot be created if this tool is activated. In this mode you can only move nodes.

Dominance edge type preselection

Before creating a dominance edge the type of the new edge can be preselected (cf. also subsection 4.5). Of course the type of an edge can be changed after creating, but preselection is very useful for creating two or more edges simultaneously. There are four different dominance edge types:

Dominance

Negated Dominance

Direct Dominance

Negated Direct Dominance

Horizontal edge type preselection

The type of a new horizontal edge can also be preselected. (cf. subsection 4.5).

Precedence

Negated Precedence

Direct Precedence

Negated Direct Precedence

Secondary Edge

Negated Secondary Edge

Please note: Secondary edge and negated secondary edge are only shown if the current corpus supports secondary edges.

Switch to Textual Mode

By clicking the rightmost button marked by the symbol the textual representation of the current graphical query will be copied into the text query editor of TIGERSearch (cf. section 3). The query text can now be edited and submitted.

Please note: In the current version of TIGERSearch a textual query cannot be converted to a graphical query (cf. subsection 4.1).