Difference between revisions of "Node styles"
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== Managing styles with the styles editor == | == Managing styles with the styles editor == | ||
| − | To manage styles you need first to open the styles editor: | + | '''To manage styles you need first to open the styles editor:''' |
*menu "Styles->Edit styles". Result: a map containing all styles is displayed. | *menu "Styles->Edit styles". Result: a map containing all styles is displayed. | ||
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There you can modify all defined styles : either styles provided by default with Freeplane, or add/change your own styles. Note that's its allowed to remove default freeplane's styles.<br> | There you can modify all defined styles : either styles provided by default with Freeplane, or add/change your own styles. Note that's its allowed to remove default freeplane's styles.<br> | ||
| − | To add your own style: | + | '''To add your own style:''' |
*in the styles editor choose the style with the nearest format of the style you want to create, right click on this style, select in the contextual menu "Save as new style...", enter new style name. Result: a new style is added and appears in the user's styles branch. | *in the styles editor choose the style with the nearest format of the style you want to create, right click on this style, select in the contextual menu "Save as new style...", enter new style name. Result: a new style is added and appears in the user's styles branch. | ||
| − | You can now fully define the style with the formatting panel. Close the style editor. Your new style is available for immediate use in toolbar's style list. | + | You can now fully define the style with the formatting panel. Close the style editor. Your new style is available for immediate use in toolbar's style list. Tip : you can also create a new style from a main map's node with the command "Styles->New style from selection". |
| − | To rename a user style: <br> | + | '''To rename a user style: '''<br> |
*select you style, right click, select in the contextual menu "Save as new style...", enter the new name you want, remove the old style entry.<br> | *select you style, right click, select in the contextual menu "Save as new style...", enter the new name you want, remove the old style entry.<br> | ||
| − | To change the display order of styles in the main toolbar styles list | + | '''To change the display order of styles in the main toolbar styles list:''' |
*move up / down branchs or styles in the styles editor.<br> | *move up / down branchs or styles in the styles editor.<br> | ||
Revision as of 22:13, 30 November 2010
The style defines the appearence of node: colors, shape and font of node, edges and clouds; style can also add icons to node. Each node can be formated accordingly to a style.
Contents
Introducing styles
Freeplane provides default styles and user can add his own styles. Since Freeplane release 1.2, styles allow to:
- change node formats quickly through a new formatting panel (use "View->Formatting panel" to display/hide the panel, screen capture:Media:Formating_Panel.png)
- change node style by choosing a style among styles list (use the combo "style" in Freeplane's main toolbar, screen capture:Media:Styles_-_Combo.png)
- define you own styles through a styles editor (use "Styles->Edit styles ...", screen capture:Media:Styles_Editor.png).
Originally each node has the "default" style. Node can be assigned another appearence with solution 1 or 2 described above. If automatic layout is on, the node is assigned the style corresponding to its level in the map. It's also possible to automaticly format node using Conditional node styles.
Changing style of a node
Changing the style automatically apply, to all selected nodes, the style formats. The node style can be changed:
- by selecting a style name in the toolbar styles list
Managing styles with the styles editor
To manage styles you need first to open the styles editor:
- menu "Styles->Edit styles". Result: a map containing all styles is displayed.
There you can modify all defined styles : either styles provided by default with Freeplane, or add/change your own styles. Note that's its allowed to remove default freeplane's styles.
To add your own style:
- in the styles editor choose the style with the nearest format of the style you want to create, right click on this style, select in the contextual menu "Save as new style...", enter new style name. Result: a new style is added and appears in the user's styles branch.
You can now fully define the style with the formatting panel. Close the style editor. Your new style is available for immediate use in toolbar's style list. Tip : you can also create a new style from a main map's node with the command "Styles->New style from selection".
To rename a user style:
- select you style, right click, select in the contextual menu "Save as new style...", enter the new name you want, remove the old style entry.
To change the display order of styles in the main toolbar styles list:
- move up / down branchs or styles in the styles editor.
Other style features
- Using menu "Styles->copy styles...": copies styles from any mindmap, which can be selected in the file selection dialog, to the current map. It works like an import user's styles from an other map.
- by using menu "Styles->Redefine style" you can redefine the style from the node based on the node formatting. It changes formats of all nodes with this style.
