Chapter 3. Functionalities
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## Chapter 3. Functionalities

## 1. Management of Graphs

Tulip software offers a way to create and manage graphs. The main window enables to have several 3D views to show differents graphs. The menu bar enables the user to create a new view. In there and with the mouse toolbar, the users can create nodes and edges at the place where the pointer is. When you have a graph and you want to keep traces of the graph, you can save it in the `.tlp` format, of Tulip Software. An other option is to export it in the `GML` format, for the graphlet system, a toolkit for graph editors and graph algorithms. Then, you can save as an picture the result you had. Tulip supports different formats : BMP, EPS, JPEG, PBM, PGM, PNG, PPM, SVG, XBM, XPM.

Tulip could generate a graph from data : importation.

Examples of importation

- Adjacency Matrix : a form of representation of graphs. Please visit Wikipedia: Adjacency Matrix for more details.

- File System : make a graph with your file system ; the root is the directory you have selected.

- GML import : create a graph from this other format.

- dot : create a graph from graphviz format.

The second possibility is to generate automatically different kinds of graph : Graph, Tree, Grid, which could be complete, simple, uniform, ...

Examples of generation

- Complete General Graph

- Complete Tree

- Grid

- Grid approximation

- Random General Graph

- Random Simple Graph

- Uniform Random Binary Tree

It is posssible to do a “Copy-Paste”. You can cut, copy and paste selected elements from a view. When you paste an element, it is placed at the same location it was in the original view. Use `View->Center View` (Ctrl+Shift+C) to make it visible in the second view. The menus and the mouse toolbar allow you to select the operation you want to perform on the selection.

### The “Find” tool

In the `Edit` menu, it exists a `Find` item allowing to do some requests on the current graph. The tool gives a way to choose the desired property and the action you want perform regarding the current selection: Make out of the found elements a new selection, Add them to the selection, Remove them from the selection or Intersect them with the current selection.

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