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. |
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