Getting Started Tutorial - Step 6

Basic Interaction

How to add basic interaction.

This step shows the default interaction gestures that are provided by class GraphEditorInputMode.

Interaction is handled by IInputMode. GraphEditorInputMode is the main input mode that already provides a large number of user interaction features, such as moving, deleting, creating, and resizing graph elements.

Click a single element with the mouse to select it. SHIFT-Click the text to select the element's label. To select multiple elements, either extend an existing selection by pressing CTRL while clicking, or drag a selection rectangle over all graph elements that you want in your selection. CTRL-A selects all elements.
Resize a node by dragging one of the handles that appear on selected nodes.
Drag a selected node or bend to move it.
Click and drag an edge at the desired bend location to create an edge bend.
To create an edge, start dragging anywhere on the unselected source node and release the mouse button over the target node.
To create a bend during edge creation, release the left mouse button anywhere on an empty spot the canvas while dragging. Click to create more bends.
Nodes may specify multiple port locations (by default, there's only a single port at the node center). You can either create an edge directly between these ports, or later move the source or target to a different port (just select the edge and drag the edge's source or target handle). Note that custom port locations are not part of this tutorial step, but are introduced later.
To create or edit a label, just press F2 when the owner is selected.
To move a label, just drag it to the desired location.

See the sources for details.