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Describing Connections

Use the Describe facility to provide useful information about the location and direction of connections.

Click directly on a connection to get to its item menu and select describe. If you click too close to the connection port, you will get the item menu for the object, rather than the connection. Similarly, if you click too close to an unconnected end of a connection, you will extend the connection instead of getting the item menu.

G2 provides this information for a directional connection:


If a connection is non-directional and the horizontal distance between connection endpoints is greater than the vertical distance between connection endpoints, describe displays information such as the following:

If the connection is non-directional and the vertical distance is greater than the horizontal, describe displays information such as the following:

where enet-outport and enet-inport are optional port names.

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