How to change a property in several styles in Cytoscape?

Question

[Ludo Cottret]

Hi,

I have several styles in my Cytoscape session. I would like to change the default node size for all of them. Is there another way than doing it manually for each of them ?

Ludo

Answer 1

[Jean-Karim Heriche]

There's probably no easy direct way because this would defeat the purpose of having different styles. One way to do it would be to save the styles as xml files (File > Export > Style...) and then use a script to make the modifications through the files then re-import the styles (File > Import > Style...) or you could try locating the styles in the .cys session file (it's a zip archive, I think the styles should be in the file named session_vizmap.xml inside the archive) and do the modifications there.

[Ludo Cottret]

Thanks Jean-Karim for the xml solution ! The purpose is to have different styles that share common properties and that differ on other properties.