Several layout algorithms can be designed to stop computation when a user-defined time specification is exceeded. This may be done for different reasons: as a security measure to avoid a long computation time on very large graphs or as an upper limit for algorithms that iteratively improve a current solution and have no other criteria to stop the computation.

Views allows you to specify the allowed time:

To obtain the current value, use the method:

If you subclass IlvGraphLayout, use the following call to know whether the specified time was exceeded:

The time is in seconds. The default value is 32.0 seconds.

To indicate whether a subclass of IlvGraphLayout supports this mechanism, the following method is provided:

The default implementation returns IlFalse. A subclass can override this method to return IlTrue to indicate that this mechanism is supported.