The Menu Bar is displayed at the top of the GeNIe window and displays menu headings. Clicking on a menu heading will open the menu and display a list of commands under that menu. You can click on a command name to choose that command. The most frequently used commands are also displayed as tool bars (collections of buttons under a common theme). The menus that are available depend on what is open in the workspace. GeNIe has four different menu bars:
(1) when no network and no data file is open,
(2) when the current window is a network (in Graph View),
and (3) when the current window is a data file spreadsheet.
The differences have to do with the fact that not all menus are relevant for each of the situations. Here is a brief introduction to each of the menus. Details for each of the menus are covered in various sections of this manual.
File Menu has commands for the interaction of GeNIe with external storage, such as creating a new model, opening, saving, closing, and printing a model, loading and saving data files, exporting annotations, and opening the directory in which the current model or the data file are located.
Edit Menu has commands for cutting, copying and pasting elements of the model, searching for an element, selecting, and highlighting multiple model elements.
View Menu has commands for viewing and hiding various windows, toolbars and status bars, selecting format of labeling for nodes, and changing the size of the model in Graph View.
Data Menu has commands for viewing, cleaning up, and generally processing of data.
Tools Menu has commands for selecting the various drawing tools for drawing different type of nodes, two useful tools (Distribution Visualizer and Metalog Builder), and program options.
Network Menu has commands operating on the entire network, for example, displaying network properties, updating the model, setting and clearing evidence, decisions and target nodes, selecting the inference algorithm, commands for dynamic Bayesian networks (DBNs), and several specialized algorithms and operations, such as probability of evidence, most probable explanation, annealed MAP, value of information in influence diagrams, and sensitivity analysis. It also contains commands for calculating the strength of connections between nodes, displaying the model graph's adjacency matrix, a list of nodes sorted by their in-degree, viewing all model equations, geoprocessing dialog, and obfuscation of the network.
Node Menu has commands for displaying Node properties, node marginalization, changing node type, setting and clearing evidence, decisions, and manipulated node values, setting and clearing of Targets, selecting view type of the node, locating parents and children of the node, and showing its overall connections in the model graph.
Learning Menu has commands for learning models and their parameters from data and generating a data file from a model.
Diagnosis Menu has commands for using the diagnostic features of GeNIe.
Layout Menu has commands for adjusting grid properties and layout options for the nodes.
Window Menu has commands to arrange the open windows in GeNIe and to switch between windows.
Help Menu has commands to display online help and modify help settings.
Note: Menu items that are grayed out do not apply to the current selection or are unavailable in the current view.