Framework Documentation
API Documentation
The Constellation Framework API documentation includes information on the Constellation component, node layout behavior classes, node and edge renderer classes, and the graph data structure.
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Tutorials
- Setting up Constellation Framework in Flex
- Learn how to create your first graph visualization! This tutorial goes over the basics of getting Constellation into your app.
- Using the graph data structure
- An overview of the methods and classes for manipulating graph data. Learn how to add and remove nodes and edges and perform more complex operations.
- Implementing a custom node renderer
- A first look at creating your own node renderers. This gives you complete control over the appearance of the nodes in your visualization.
- Creating a custom edge renderer
- How to create your own edge renderer. Find out how to customize the appearance of the edges in your graph visualization.
- Using behaviors for node layouts
- Framework's node layout algorithm combines multiple behavior modules to produce the desired effect. Learn about what some of the commonly-used behaviors actually do.
- Parsing Graph Data
- Find out how you can interpret data from external files and use it to populate a graph with nodes and edges.
- Implementing Custom Graph Parsers
- Creating a custom graph parser is easy! The
IGraphParseronly requires one method. Look at an example in this tutorial.