Views

TYPES OF WINDOWS

Most of what you do in Tinderbox takes place in two types of windows:

• note windows
• view windows.

A note window shows information about one particular note (such as the text of that note, or the values of the attributes of that note).

A view window depicts some, or all, of the notes in the document; some of the document’s hierarchical structure; and possibly some of its links.

VIEW WINDOWS

There are seven types of of view windows:

• outline windows
• chart windows
• map windows
• treemap windows
• explorer windows: an explorer window is a two-pane window, combining an outline, chart, or map view in the left pane with the text of the selected note in the right pane.
• HTML windows: used for exporting
• Nakakoji view windows: used for exporting

You may keep many view windows open while working in Tinderbox, of whatever types. Keeping several view windows open can be very helpful. A chart window might, for instance, show you the entire structure of your work, while a map window lets you work with the details of one section. Or, if you are creating many links between two parts of your document, you could have a view window open on each area.

To open a new view window choose New ... view from the Views menu; or use a keyboard shortcut:

Cmd-option-M — new map window

Cmd-option-C — new chart window

Cmd-option-O — new outline window

Cmd-option-T — new treemap window

Cmd-option-N — new Nakakoji view window

Cmd-option-H — new HTML view window

Cmd-option-E — new explorer window

If you open a new view window when a text window is in front, the new view window will show the portion of the document’s hierarchy that includes that note.

If you open a new view window when another view window is in front, the new view window will show the portion of the document’s hierarchy that includes the selected note.

MOVING AROUND

Click-and-drag with the hand cursor to move the view in a window. (If the marquee tool is active, hold down option to switch temporarily to the hand tool.)

Use the horizontal and vertical scroll bars to move around in a view window.

To scroll directly to a specific note, simply type the first characters of the note’s name.

CONTEXTUAL MENUS IN VIEWS

Menu of notes

• Right-click, ctrl-click (or click-and-hold) with the hand cursor in any view window, when the cursor is not over a note, to get a contextual menu of all the notes visible in that view:
• Choose a note name to make that the selected note. If necessary, the view will shift to make that note visible in the window.

Go Up will change the view to show the portion of the document one level higher up in the hierarchy. (In a map view, this will change which note you are seeing; in other view windows this will make more of the document visible, including what you were seeing before.)

The note contextual menu also contains useful commands that apply to the selected note.

CHANGING SCALE

Choose the scale at which you see a view with the Scale popup menu, near the bottom-left of a view window. (Does not apply to Treemap views.) At large scales (+3, +4), you can see a small area of the view in detail. At small scales (-3, -4), you can see a large portion of the view, but without much detail.

The bullet • in the menu indicates the current scale.

New view windows open at Normal scale.

THE ARROW KEYS

You can use the arrow keys on the keyboard to change which is the selected note in any view window. If there is no note in the chosen direction, pressing that key will do nothing.