Toolbar

This topic describes the flow editor's toolbar.

The toolbar is located above the editor area:

With one exception, all of the functions accessible through the icons on the toolbar are also available on the View menu (see View menu). The exception is the function provided by the Toggle Terminal Thumbnails/Icon icon, which is available only on the toolbar(see Appearance of Invoke screen operation nodes):

The icons on the toolbar control visual features and do not affect the function of the currently opened flow. These icons are described in Table 1.

Note: To enable the Align icons, you must first use the mouse to draw a marking rectangle around the group of nodes that you want to align (see Marking rectangle).

Table 1. Icons on the flow editor toolbar
Icon:	Icon name:	Function:
	Manhattan Layout	Switches between normal layout of nodes and Manhattan layout of nodes.
	Show Grid	Shows a grid that you can use to check the alignment of nodes.
	Grid Properties	Opens the Grid Properties window, which allows you to set grid spacing.
	Align Left	Aligns the icons to the leftmost node.
	Align Right	Aligns the icons to the rightmost node.
	Align Center	Align the icons to the centermost node.
	Align Top	Aligns the icons to the topmost node.
	Align Middle	Align the icons to the middlemost node.
	Align Bottom	Aligns the icons to the bottommost node in the group.
	Show Distribute Box	Displays a dotted-line rectangle enclosing the current group of nodes that you have selected.
	Distribute Horizontally	Within the area enclosed by the distribute box, spaces the nodes out evenly along the horizontal axis.
	Distribute Vertically	Within the area enclosed by the distribute box, spaces the nodes out evenly along the vertical axis.
	Toggle Terminal Thumbnails/Icons	Affects the appearance of Invoke screen operation nodes only. Switches between displaying an Invoke screen operation node as an icon or as a thumbnail of the application screen associated with the node's input terminal (see Appearance of Invoke screen operation nodes).