The Link Component

More to Learn

A link in Scenemator is a general purpose component used to express a connection between 2 elements. They differ from pathways which are organized set of interactions.

Overview

Links are there to help so use them. Purists will warn not to use them instead of pathways though, but you decide . The rest is yours to discover in following sections.

Describe a Link

In Scenemator, a link is described in 2 dimensions: text — for what you have to say about it, morphology — to define how it looks. Click on and try them all!
Use in emator
Text
What do you have to say ?
Name A short and meaningful name
Description A hint about the rational behind that link

* Note that text properties are not carried over from type.

Morphology
How it looks ?
Shape Choose between basic shapes
Color Nothing fancy here, you can choose any of the predefined colors
Size If the size matters, then you have 6 different sizes to choose from
Glyph Browse and select a glyph from one of the categories

Links in Composition

In this view, you introduce all links of your scene.

Actions
What you can do here
Introduce Click on to introduce a link.
Drain Click on to remove a link from the scene.
Clone Make an identical copy of a link
Describe Describe a link or its type using the on

Links in Layout & Pathway

In this view, you position links of your scene.

Actions
What you can do here
Move Click and drag a link to give it a specific position
Describe Describe a link

Links in Presentation

This is the show time view for links and other components of your scene. Here we took out everything that is not helpful for presentation. So there is no layout or way to introduce new links but you can still describe them!

Actions
What you can do here
Describe Describe a link