The standard way of using the Metanet window is from Scilab. Indeed, the Metanet window is opened only when needed as a new process.
Many Metanet windows can be opened at the same time. Each Metanet window has a number (integer starting from 1). One of these windows is the current Metanet window .
The metanet function opens a new Metanet window and returns its number. A path can be given as an optional argument: it is the directory where graph files are searched; by default, graph files are searched in the working directory. The metanet function is mainly used when we want to create a new graph.
We describe below the Scilab functions used in conjunction with the Metanet window.