Welcome to the Tulip Developer oriented documentation!

This manual is a necessary help for the developers of an application using Tulip libraries and for the developers of the Tulip Team.

It explains how to compile the libraries and the software, it does a presentation of the main methods available in the libraries. Chapters relate the programming and documentation guidelines.

Contents:

• Installation instructions : Ready to compile
  • How to proceed ?
  • Installation on a UNIX-like OS
  • Installation on a Windows system
• Configuring the IDE QtCreator
  • Installing QtCreator
  • Importing the existing project
  • Build the project (Release version)
  • Compile the project (Release version)
  • Run the project (Release version)
  • Change the compile and run configuration
• Tulip Library
  • Introduction
  • Graphs
  • Hierarchy of graphs
  • Attributes
  • Properties
• Starting with the Tulip library
  • Tutorial compilation instructions
  • TUTORIAL 001 : Graphs creation, adding and deleting nodes or edges.
  • TUTORIAL 002 : Iterating over a graph (class Iterator and the macro forEach)
  • TUTORIAL 003 : Properties
  • TUTORIAL 004 : Create your first subgraph
  • TUTORIAL 005 : Properties and subgraphs
  • TUTORIAL 006 : Edges order
  • TUTORIAL 007 : Mutable Collection
  • TUTORIAL 008 : Graph Tests
  • TUTORIAL 009 : Graph observation and event detection
• Tulip graph format
  • Nodes
  • Edges
  • Clusters
  • Definitions of properties
  • Properties of Tulip
• Plug-ins development
  • The PropertyAlgorithm class
  • The PluginProgress class
  • Example of a PropertyAlgorithm skeleton
  • The Algorithm class
  • Import plug-ins
  • Export plug-ins
• Documentation Guidelines
  • Sphinx
  • Doxygen