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Many of the operations
you will perform in FlowJo are executed by
"dragging and dropping." For instance, to copy an analysis gate
to another sample, simply click on the subpopulation gate, and while
holding the mouse button down, drag until the desired destination sample
(or subpopulation) is highlighted; then let go of the mouse button. FlowJo applies the gate to that sample, creates a new
node and displays it in the workspace.
In this example, the FSC-H node is dragged from
sample B01 to C02.
Likewise, analysis nodes can be dragged
to the table
editor in order to create tables
of statistics, or to the layout editor to create graphical representations.
When you drag a node, the default action is that
node itself will be moved; none of its descendants or parents
go along. However, if you right click when you start the drag,
then all children of the node become part of the drag.
When you drag a node, the default action
is that node itself will be moved; none of its descendants or parents go along. However, if you hold down the
"option" key when you start the drag, then all children of the node
become part of the drag; if you hold down the "control" key, then
all parent nodes of the selected node become part of the drag. Holding down
both keys takes parents and children. The inclusion of children or parents
applies to all selected nodes.
Whenever you start a drag operation, FlowJo creates a "drag outline" which
represents all of the nodes that you are dragging. This way, you will have
a visual feedback of what is happening.
When you finally drop your selection onto
a node, all of the selected nodes are applied to the destination
node: i.e., they all become children of the destination node.
If the nodes you are dragging already
exist in the destination, then you will be asked what to do: you can
replace the existing nodes with the ones you are copying, you can duplicate
the nodes you are dragging (the duplicate nodes will have a "-2"
appended to their name), or you can elect to retain the nodes in the
destination sample. The latter is useful when you want to copy a whole tree
with new analyses onto a sample which already has some of the gates, but
you want to change the sample's versions of the gates. These options are
more fully discussed in the pages on replacing
existing nodes.
All of this is rather complex to
describe... an example of the different kinds of operations will better help you understand the ramifications of
the various dragging and dropping operations.
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