Semantic DB GUI

We have now added a graphical user interface to the project that significantly improves the usability of the SDB. It should be noted this is a strict superset of the command line version, since all operators in the command line version are still available in this version. One advantage of the new interface is that many things are now just a click away. For example, if you click on a ket, a window will pop up with information about that ket. If you click on a literal operator, then a window will pop up with its information. If you hold down shift while you click on objects, you will get a special window displaying information about all those objects at once. And if you click on a operator that is in the operator library, the appropriate usage frame will be displayed.

Menu

File

New, creates a new file.

Open, opens an existing file.

Save, saves current panel to disk.

Quit

Insert

Inserts the selected object into the current panel.

Insert Window

Opens a small window of the selected object type, and allows you to insert elements into the current panel by clicking on those objects. The intention was that this would allow quick insertion of commonly used objects.

Window

Ket Map, shows the back end mapping of strings to unique integers. It has no practical value.

Command, switches to the command panel interface.

Edit, switches to the edit panel interface.

Visualize

Active Table, opens a window that helps you build a table from common components.

Examples

Opens the relevant example on the semantic-db website.

Usage

Opens the usage frame for the selected object.

Help

Open web usage

Open website

About, opens the app about box.

Screenshots

Here is the command panel, as seen when you first open the app (and filled with some sample knowledge):

Here is the command panel after pressing Run All (noting that blue objects are clickable or shift-clickable):

Here are all the insert windows:

Here is the edit panel (yes, deliberately minimalist in contrast to the command panel):

Here is the knowledge frame (invoked by holding down shift while clicking on objects and then releasing the shift key):

Here is the general operators window after loading and running the family tree example, followed by the family-relations example, invoked by clicking the "General operators" checkbox in the knowledge frame:

Here is the usage frame (invoked by clicking on an operator, or from the Usage menu):

Here is the active table dialog (found in the Visualize menu):

Here is the resulting table, after pressing Run:

Here is the active table dialog after loading the temperature conversion example:

Here is the resulting table, after pressing Run:

Here is a sketch of an if-then machine, our abstract model of a neuron:

Here is the if-then machine dialog (found in the Insert->Misc->if-then machine menu):

Here is the if-then operator dialog (found in the Insert->Misc->if-then operator menu):

Next up, we have the command panel and the edit panel.