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In the tutorials, some areas in the jABC4 interface will be referenced. This briefly explains these areas and their function.

The jABC4 user interface is composed of three main areas:


The Browser Area (1)

This area serves as navigation between your different projects and can contain multiple tabs that are project-specific.

Projects tab

Here, the list of all projects is shown. When you have more than one project, double-clicking on a project switches into that project making it the active project.

Graphs tab

This tab is only visible for the active project but can also be explicitly hidden for individual projects. The content is composed of the graphs that are accessable in the project, which can be actual model graphs located in the project but also graphs from external libraries.

I/O sib tree

I/O sib trees contain a subset of graphs, which can also be preconfigured to adjust their data flow, documentation.

Service tree

Service trees provide the opportunity to access libraries of source code and use the contained classes and methods to execute them in a graph model.


The Inspector Area (2)

This area holds several tabs associated with the graph model that is currently opened. Most of the time, the SLG tab is the important tab for the process of modeling a graph, since it contains the list of context variables and other data on the graph.


The Graph Canvas (3)

This is the area on which the graph models will be displayed and that makes it possible to add and edit the actions of a graph.