Sunflower UI Overview

The Sunflower GUI has the following main parts:

  • main navigation toolbar
  • project navigator window
  • Text Editor window
  • plugin tabs
  • plugin’s primary window
  • plugin’s secondary window
The **Sunflower** GUI

Fig. 27 The Sunflower GUI

On the left side of the Sunflower GUI is the project navigator, as shown in Fig. 27. New projects can be created or brought into the project navigation window using the main navigation menu option File. Similarly, new Flora ontologies can be added to existing Sunflower projects in this window. Other file types can also be added and their corresponding viewer applications launched from the Sunflower File option. All new projects and files added to Sunflower are shown and can be selected from the project navigation window.

On the top right is the Text Editor. When a file is selected in the project navigation window, this window shows the contents of the currently selected file.

In the middle is a row of tabs, one for each of Sunflower’s plugins. These tabs are discussed in their individual sections as follow:

On the bottom left is the primary window of the currently active plugin. It displays the plugin’s view of the selected file. For example, this window in Fig. 27 shows the selected ontology file family.flr from the perspective of the KB Editor.

To the right of the plugin’s primary window is the plugin’s secondary window. As in the case of the KB Editor plugin, its secondary window is used for showing and editing details of identifier selected in the primary window. In Fig. 27, this window shows the details of individual Aaron and all his properties.