FAQ of MemoDraw

- How the interface work?
- Can we report feature need or bug?
- Do we have options or settings like?
- What is options on settings?
- How to print a page?
- How to make a PDF of the page?
- How to remove "bar options" ?
- How describe issues or share ideas?
- How change language request?
- What is the "bar options" ?
- Make relationship between two ideas?
- Is there an Android web app? Yes !
- Is there an iOS web app? Yes !
- Why it's displaying "Please wait" ?
- Why some connexion line is weighting?
- What is language "data"?
- What is "grouping" options?
- What is "degrees" options?
- Have secrete URL params?
- Have secrete API?
- List of languages supported?
- Can i change visual theme mode?

Q: How the interface work?

A: Press

on top left, now you can select between:

Home to back to home page
Language and filter to choose databases language
Login to have your own place
Share for sharing this request with others
Settings to choose options
FAQs to see this area
Best of to see this area
Feedback to have direct connection with our team
About to have technical information

Q: Can we report feature need or bug?

A: You have two options:

Press on top left, and use Feedback
Mail the content of this link to sbloc@hotmail.com with description

Q: What is options on settings?

(context / node / tree / path / skin / graph)

Context: «Link between several elements»

Label: type of display on the context line

Contexts: number of context to display

Detail: level of detail of context

Thickness: thickness criteria

Gradient: color gradient enabled

Straight: straight context text

Node: «Display elements»

Select: type of action at selection

Content: content type

Label: whether or not the name is displayed

Distance: distance display or not

LOD: change size because of Level Of Detail

Group: display or not as a group.
(when there are things in common)
Keyboard G

Tree: "Literal search options"

Level in: number of levels before the main element

Level out: number of levels after the main element

Weight: maximum weight limits

Degrees: limits on the number of elements per level

Path: «Cross search options»

Margin: distance accepted with the shortest path

Method: type of research method

Skin: «Visual appearance of the interface»

Text: text clipping type

Shape: type of decorative shading

Body: body shape of elements

Tooltip: tooltip form
native or rich
dynamic or static
mobile or desktop
left, right or neutral handed

Graph: «Graphic visualization"

Render: graphic rendering engine

Direction: display orientation

Q: How to print a page?
(under Windows 10)

/ Share / Print
unfold "More Parameters"
check "Background Graphics"
uncheck "Headers and footers"
"Print" bouton

You can also remove the bar options to clarify the visual

Q: How to make a PDF of the page?
(under Windows 10)

do like the How to print a page
in "destination" select "Save as PDF"
"Save" button

Q: How to remove "bar options" (at bottom) ?

/ Settings
uncheck "Options bar"

Q: How describe issues or share ideas to MemoDraw team?

/ Feedback

Q: How change language request?

A: You can change database for queries but you can also prefer a more linguistics approach (etymology, use case, ...).

/ Language and filter

For the more linguistic or etymological version use those that end with "(linguistic)"

Q: What is the "bar options" ?

A: Its a bar on bottom with actions:

"More" to have more result
"Less" to have less result
"Context" to have or not context of relations
"Share" for sharing this request with others
"Zoom" to zoom in/out the current graph

You can also remove the bar options to clarify the visual

For "More" or "Less" see:

/ Settings / { Levels in, Level out or Margin }

Q: How to look for the relationship between two ideas?

in the search bar select the first idea
in the "+" zone add the second idea

Q: Is there an Android web app?

A: Yes !

open the web page https://www.memodraw.com
on vertical ... do "Add to the home screen"
"add" button

now the icon

appears on the home screen and behaves like a classic application!

Q: Is there an iOS web app?

A: Yes !

open the web page https://www.memodraw.com
on vertical ... do "Add to the home screen"
"add" button

now the icon

appears on the home screen and behaves like a classic application!

Q: I have the window "Please wait" then a message "time out", why?

A: You had to do a "path" search, between two expressions.
This can be really long, but do not worry the server does not stop calculating.
Wait a little and refresh your screen with key F5

Q: Why some connexion line is more weighting?

A: More the force of the connection is strong, more le line weighting is ! You can chose the maner of it work with:

/ Settings / Context
select "Thickness"

With criteria:

none: not use thickness differentiation
LOD: use bigers Level Of Detail
weight: use bigers weighting values

and additionaly can have:

no linear who use the most 2 significant values
linear who give extrapolated values

Q: What is language "data"?

A: It exist 3 versions of databases by language:

General version, with the all common data
Linguistic version, with the ethymology/linguistic data only
Universal version, with common international purpose

Q: What is "grouping" options?

A: We can group item when links connected have same:

source
target
context
weight

It can be activate with:

/ Settings / Node
check/uncheck "Group"
key: G

Q: What is "degrees" options?

A: It's the limit of number of elements per level
It can be activate with:

/ Settings / Tree
select "Degrees"

Q: Have secrete URL params?

A: Yes! But not so secrete

fixVizAscii: fix a graphviz bug of not ascii

1: activate (by default)
0: unactivate
-1: debug

Q: Have secrete API?

A: Yes! But not so secrete (too)

The dev are Memodraw api available.
They are also availability on console mode in Javascript

// Export memo to a file and download
// as: "jpg" (default), "png" or "svg"
// isTransparent: true or false (default)
downloadSvg(as, isTransparent);

// Download dot file (graphviz)
downloadDot();

// Copy current url
copyUrl();

// Find and blink the node with the label
// label: (string) exact node label
find(label);

// Effect when menu is open [experimental]
useClient3d = true;

// Open share menu
shareAuto();

// Select all items
selectAll();

// Unselect items
selectNone();

// Close a popup (menu, report, login, dialog)
closePopup();

// Change UI language
// lang: (string) en (default), fr, es, ...
useLang(lang);

// Open or close menu [experimental]
useSwipe = true;

// UI on right to left or revers
// r2l: true(right to left), false (left to right)
direction(r2l);

Q: List of languages supported?

A: This is it!

pseudo	language	interface	corpus
en	English	local	U/G/L
fr	French	local	U/G/L
es	Spanish	local	U/G/L
ar	Arabic	local	U
ceb	Cebuano	local	U
de	German	local	U
it	Italian	local	U
ja	Japanese	local	U
nl	Dutch	local	U
pl	Polish	local	U
pt	Portuguese	local	U
ro	Romanian	local	U
ru	Russian	local	U
sv	Swedish	local	U
uk	Ukrainian	local	U
vi	Vietnamese	local	U
war	Waray-Waray	local	U
zh	Chinese	local	U
	374 others	english	U