The Message Flow editor is the default editor provided by the Broker Application Development perspective for defining a graphical representation of a message flow in the workbench, and for setting properties for individual message flow nodes.
The editor is launched in the editor area of the workbench window when you open a message flow (.msgflow) file in the Resource Navigator view. The editor area is where you select built-in and user-defined nodes, and the connections between them, to define a message flow.
For information about changing the palette preferences
in Message Brokers Toolkit Version 5.1,
see Changing palette preferences.
The Message Flow editor has the following views:
The icons in the toolbar and their actions are shown in the table below.
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Show grid | Displays a grid of horizontal and vertical dotted lines in the background of the editor area. |
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Snap to grid | Snaps each node to the nearest grid line. |
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Grid properties | Defines the horizontal and vertical spacing of the grid markers, and the gap between the borders of the editor area and the start of the grid markers. |
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Align left | Lines up the left edge of the currently selected nodes. Enabled only when more than one node is selected. |
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Align center | Lines up the horizontal center point (between left and right) of the currently selected nodes. Enabled only when more than one node is selected. |
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Align right | Lines up the right edge of all the currently selected nodes. Enabled only when more than one node is selected. |
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Align top | Lines up the top edge of the currently selected nodes. Enabled only when more than one node is selected. |
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Align middle | Lines up the vertical center point (between top and bottom) of the currently selected nodes. Enabled only when more than one node is selected. |
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Align bottom | Lines up the bottom edge of the currently selected nodes. Enabled only when more than one node is selected. |
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Show distribute box | Displays a rectangular box around the currently selected nodes. |
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Distribute horizontally | Aligns the currently selected nodes with the nearest right or left edge within the distribute box. |
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Distribute vertically | Aligns the currently selected nodes with the nearest top or bottom edge within the distribute box. |
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Prints the contents of the editor area. |
Related concepts
Message flows
Related tasks
Defining message flow content
Changing palette preferences
Changing the palette layout
Changing the palette settings
Customizing the palette
Related reference
Broker Application Development perspective
Built-in nodes
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