\name{getLayoutNameMapping}
\alias{getLayoutNameMapping}
\alias{getLayoutNameMapping,CytoscapeConnectionClass-method}
\title{getLayoutNameMapping}
\description{
The Cytoscape 'Layout' menu lists many layout algorithms, but the names
presented there are different from the names by which these
algorithms are known to layout method.   This method returns a
named list in which the names are from the GUI, and the values identify
the names you must use to choose an algorithms in the programmatic interface.
}
\usage{
getLayoutNameMapping(obj)
}
\arguments{
  \item{obj}{a \code{CytoscapeConnectionClass} object. }
}

\value{
 A named list of strings.
}

\author{Paul Shannon}

\seealso{
  layout
  getLayoutNames
  getLayoutPropertyNames
  getLayoutPropertyType
  getLayoutPropertyValue
  setLayoutProperties
 }

\examples{
  cy <- CytoscapeConnection ()
  layout.name.map <- getLayoutNameMapping (cy)
  print (head (names (layout.name.map), n=3))
    # [1] "Inverted Self-Organizing Map Layout" "Group Attributes Layout" "MOEN Layout"
  print (head (as.character (layout.name.map), n=3))
    # [1] "isom"   "attributes-layout"   "jgraph-moen"
}

\keyword{graph}