While you can use the menu options and toolbar buttons to add elements, biological pathways can be created faster and more intuitively by dragging and dropping appropriate elements from the Biological Elements dialog. You can use this dialog to:
- add a new element to the canvas
- replace the image of an existing elements
To insert a biological element, proceed as follows:
- Select a picture in the Element, Process or Other tab. The picture description and size will be displayed in a fly-over help string when you position the mouse cursor over the picture.
- Select the Element/Process Type
- Select the Element Size by defining the picture scale.
- Click on the chosen picture, drag it to the active canvas and drop it there by releasing the mouse button.
Pictures from the Entity or Process tabs are inserted as elements of the specified type: Continuous, Discrete or Generic. Pictures from the Other tab are inserted as images and they do not have any impact on the simulation results.
To replace the image of an existing element, proceed as follows:
- Select a picture in the Element or Process tab. The picture description and size will be displayed in a fly-over help string when you position the mouse cursor over the picture.
- Click on the chosen picture, drag it to the active canvas and drop it over the existing entity or process by releasing the mouse button.
Please note that pictures from the Entity can be used to replace entity elements only, while pictures from Process tab can replace process elements only. The replace function is not available for pictures from the Other tab.