Command Line Options

When launching GUESS there are a number of command line options that can control the launch. Valid usage includes:

• guess [options] [database directory] [python files]
  

• guess [options] [gdf/xml file] [python files]
  

• guess [options] null [python files]

Options can be:

• —console or –c to enable the visual console
  

• —nowarn or –n disables warnings when loading graphs
  

• —persistent directory or –o directory to use an on-disk database (useful if you want to keep working with the same visualization, you can do this the first time to create the database). Be aware that this overwrites the database if it exists so you should only use this the first time you load the gdf!
  

• —novis or –v to disable any visualization (useful for speeding up certain operations like layouts).
  

• —gplfree or –f to disable gpl code in the system (limits what you can do)
  

• —touchgraph or –t to load the visualization in touchgraph
  

• —prefuse or –p to load the visualization in prefuse
  

• —multiedge or –m to enable support for multiple edges between nodes (off by default)
  

• —reset or -r to delete the user settings (window positions, saved text fields etc.) and start with the default values
  

• —quality n or -q n with n between 0 and 3. 3 is the best and 0 is the worst quality

Example usage:

• guess —nowarn test.gdf foo.py will load up test.gdf without warnings and then execute foo.py
  

• guess —persistent database/temp null will load up GUESS with an empty graph and will save all changes to the persistent database in database/temp