2.3 Other functionalities

The editor provides many other functionalities such as

• saving and loading diagrams in various formats
• zooming and changing the point of view
• changing block aspects and colors
• changing diagram's background and forground colors
• placing text in the diagram
• printing and exporting Scicos diagrams
• and many other standard GUI functions.

The Help button can be used to obtain help on various aspects of Scicos. Selecting Help and then clicking on a block displays the manual page of the block. Selecting Help and then selecting another button, displays the manual page of the button.

Finally, an important feature in Scicos is the possibility of creating sub-systems (Super Blocks). Clearly, it would not be desirable to fit a complex system with hundreds of components in one Scicos diagram. For that, Scicos provides the possibility of grouping blocks together and defining sub-diagrams called Super Blocks. These blocks behave like any other block but can contain an unlimited number of blocks, and even other Super Blocks.