Quickstart

After you have launched Wandora application you should see initial Wandora window with six different GUI areas of Button bar, Topic tree, Finder, Layer stack, Topic panel and Info fields. Window also has menu bar that contains most of the Wandora's tools.

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Button Bar

Button bar at the top of the window contains Open and arrow buttons. Arrow buttons behave like WWW browser's back and forward except that history contains no WWW pages but topics. Wandora's back button recalls previous topic in the Topic panel and right button restores next topic in the history. Arrow button is disabled if there is no topic in the history to restore.

Open button opens a topic into the Topic panel for detailed inspection. Clicking the button opens a Select topic window with Topics and Select tabs. Window and tabs are used to address the topic to be opened into the Topic panel. To open a topic select a topic in the topic tree or enter topic's subject identifier, subject locator or basename in the Select tab and click OK.

Topic Tree

Topic tree is one of the most convenient GUI element in the Wandora. Wandora window contains a topic tree in top left corner. Topic tree is a selection and navigation tool to browse available topics.

Topic is represented in the tree as a basename. Topics are arranged in the tree along type-of and super-sub-class relation.

Clicking the handle in front of the topic icon and name opens subtree of the topic. Double clicking a topic in the tree opens the topic into the topic panel. Right clicking a topic in the topic tree reveals a context menu with a large number of topic tools.

Finder

Although topic tree offers very efficient method to browse and select topics there may be alone topics and separate topic islands in the topic map that can not be reached with topic tree. Finder offers more fuzzy manner to find topics. Finder tab locates beside the Topics tree top left of the Wandora window.

Finder is simply a free text search to topic map. You may search with any topic element or element combination. Search result appears below the search field. Double clicking a topic in the search result opens the topic into the topic panel. Right clicking a topic opens context menu with a large number of topic tools.